Wiered 3Com905 problem.

[Hashibon Adham]

Hi, We have been using 3Com509 cards for a long time under linux with out
any problems. our faculty decided to move to 3Com905B card (from all
flavours, buit mainlt tx) in order to prepare for 100M communications, 

Once we replaced the  card, and updated the module for 3c905
boomerang (version 0.99 4/7/1998) the communication worked for about 2
mins or so, then we get the messege:

eth0: transmit timed out, tx_status 00 status e000

We changed to the newer veriosn of the driver; 0.99H but we obtain the
same result + a " unresolved symbols " messege when checking module
dependencies.

Thanks, 
adham






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On Tue, 15 Dec 1998, Donald Becker wrote:

> On Tue, 15 Dec 1998, AndyTrzeciak wrote:
> 
> > I have Linux 2.0.36 and 3x905 card installed
> > Loaded as a module with debug=3 options=6
> > And I'm getting those three lines every 1 min.
> > Is this telling me there is something wrong or this is normal.
> 
> This is normal when you have debug=3.
> Debug levels 2 and 3 will report media sensing and negotitation.  Higher
> levels will report packet transfer and interrupt activity.
> 
> BTW, you shouldn't need "options=6" with v0.99H.  It's best to remove it.
> 
> > Dec 15 10:09:58 pacific kernel: eth0: Media selection timer tick happened,
> > MII.
> > Dec 15 10:09:58 pacific kernel: eth0: MII transceiver has status 786d.
> > Dec 15 10:09:58 pacific kernel: eth0: Media selection timer finished, MII.
> 
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