[vortex-bug] AUI connector with 3C905B-Combo, a workaround

[Bogdan Costescu]

On 18 Aug 2000, Moritz Franosch wrote:

>  Transceiver/media interfaces available:  100baseTx 10baseT 10base2 AUI10baseFL.
> Transceiver type in use:  Autonegotiate.
>  MAC settings: half-duplex.

These are the relevant lines. The card is initialized in Autonegotiate
mode, for some reason, even with "options=1".

Can you do 'modprobe 3c59x options=1 debug=2" and report (only) the output
from /var/log/messages ?

Sincerely,

Bogdan Costescu

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