[vortex] GX150: Test results with Becker's 0.99V 3c59x.
Andrew Morton
akpm@zip.com.au
Tue Feb 12 19:51:01 2002
Bill Cattey wrote:
>
> The first thing Becker asked me to do took too long for me to try.
> I apologize. We grabbed 3c59x and pci-scan from Vortex, built them
> and tested them today. Our results? It looks like this epoch of
> boomerang chip DOES NOT communicate with its MII's.
>
> Dell just sent me a 3c90x driver that they allege copes with
> tempermental MII issues. I'll let y'all know if that driver gets any
> acceptable response out of the MII's.
Oh. I'd forgotten about 3c90x. Yes, that's definitely a
good thing to try, even if only for forensic purposes.
> But we may indeed be dealing with a run of defective chips.
>
Ugly. But do the machines do the same thing under Windows?
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