3COM Gbit NIC drivers - from Beowulf digest, Vol 1 #658

[Richard Fryer]

On 20 Nov, Nirmal Bissonauth commented on 3COM 3C996 Gigabit Ethernet
Drivers:

We tried several of these NICs in October.  We were unable to get the March
2001 drivers to run stably on the Tyan 24xx motherboards.  With even
moderate traffic, the system would lock under (I think) 2.4.13.  Ping worked
though.  Didn't try it with older kernels cited on the 3COM site (2.4.0 and
2.2.x).

The Tyan newsgroup also reports problems with this NIC under W2K and there
are supposed to be patches available via 3COM tech support.  We haven't yet
gotten a reply from 3COM tech support regarding the Linux drivers.

We moved on to other things and I'd hoped to see someone else's comment here
about revised drivers.  If there has been one, I haven't seen it.

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Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2001 9:08 AM
Subject: Beowulf digest, Vol 1 #658 - 9 msgs


> Message: 2
> Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 17:38:16 +0000 (GMT)
> From: Nirmal Bissonauth <Nirmal.Bissonauth at durham.ac.uk>
> Reply-To: Nirmal Bissonauth <Nirmal.Bissonauth at durham.ac.uk>
> To: Steve Gaudet <SGaudet at turbotekcomputer.com>
> cc: "'beowulf at beowulf.org'" <beowulf at beowulf.org>
> Subject: RE: Gigabit Ethernet switches and network adaptors.
>
>
> On Tue, 20 Nov 2001, Steve Gaudet wrote:
>
> > The most promising stuff is a broadcomm chip based 3com card (3c996) but
as
> > of
> > this moment, there's no Linux driver for it.  That'll be the stuff to
buy
> > for
> > next year, though.
> >
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> >
> > Steve Gaudet
> > Linux Sales Engineer
> >    .....
>
> Actually 3com has some linux drivers for the 3c996 card on their website.
> If anybody tries them, let us know if they are any good?
>
>
http://www.3com.com/products/en_US/result.jsp?selected=6&sort=effdt&sku=3C99
6-T&order=desc
> Hope that was pasted ok.
>
> Cheers
> Nirmal Bissonauth
>
Richard Fryer, Beomax Inc.
www.beomax.com