3C900-combo

[Paul Tod Rieger]

On Wed, 24 Mar 1999, Donald Becker wrote:

> > I have a 10 Mb/sec 3Com 3C900-combo card. I have insmod'd the 8390 and
> > 3c59x driver modules (Linux 2.0.36, Debian 2.1) -- and am able to ping
> > my own IP.
>
> You don't need to load 8390 for the 3c900.
> The only 3Com card that needs the 8390.o core is the very old 3c503.
>
> > However, the 10Base2 (bus) and 10BaseT (hub) connections seem dead to
> > the world. Is there another driver version I could try now? (I'm not a
> > driver developer, but I'd be willing to help debug this.) Both
> > connections had worked on Solaris 7, Intel.
>
> What is the detection message?

Mar 25 16:30:03 www kernel: 3c59x.c:v0.99E 5/12/98 Donald Becker  
http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/vortex.html

Mar 25 16:30:03 www kernel: eth1: 3Com 3c900 Boomerang 10Mbps/Combo at  
0xff00, 00:60:97:b1:72:3c, IRQ 10

Mar 25 16:30:03 www kernel:   8K word-wide RAM 3:5 Rx:Tx split,  
autoselect/NWay Autonegotiation interface.

Mar 25 16:30:03 www kernel:   Enabling bus-master transmits and  
whole-frame receives.


> Are you using the media type that you expect?

I've tried the 10Base2 (with my LAN) and 10BaseT (cable modem) connections.


> Check /proc/net/dev to see if you are sending packets.

The file size is 0.


> If so, you likely have a routing problem.

I have tried the same network settings (and thus routes) with the  
ne2k-pci driver and a ne2k-compatible NIC -- and had success.  In fact, I  
am using this NIC as eth0 with the cable modem now.  I'd like to use the  
3C900-combo card's 10Base2 as eth1 with the LAN.


> Check /proc/interrupts to verify that you are getting interrupts.

This size is also 0.

Thanks for any more help!  (And the ne2k-pci driver. :-)  BTW, does it  
need the 8390.o core?  I have been loading it....)

Tod