linux 3c59x driver

[Leon Avery]

I've received a few suggestions that I power-cycle the machine to
purge the 3c905b of evil spirits introduced by Win95.  I neglected to
say that I had already tried that, and it didn't work.  However, as a
more drastic exorcism I opened the box, yanked the board, and plugged
it back in again.  That worked.

Thanks, all.

-- 
Leon Avery                                       (214) 648-4931 (voice)
Department of Molecular Biology and Oncology              -1488 (fax)
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
5323 Harry Hines Blvd                            leon@eatworms.swmed.edu
Dallas, TX  75235-9148                  http://eatworms.swmed.edu/~leon/

On Jul 8,  1:34pm, Leon Avery wrote:
> Subject: linux 3c59x driver
> I am the administrator of a brand new Red Hat linux 5.1 PC with a
> brand new 3C905b enet card.  I downloaded the lastest 3c59x.c driver
> source (the version string is "3c59x.c:v0.99E 5/12/98 Donald Becker
> http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/vortex.html") and compiled
> it without trouble.  The card is properly detected on boot as a
> cyclone.  However, it doesn't work -- I have the ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
> address problem.  According to the "Using Linux Network Device Drivers
> as Modules" page,
> 
>     The solution is to either update to the latest driver, (the
>     drivers are being re-worked to enabled the devices) or to disable
>     the "PnP OS" setting in the machine's BIOS setup.
> 
> As far as I know, I have the latest driver (though I'd be happy to
> learn that I'm wrong).  I've tried PnP OS both ways (it was originally
> off, actually), and it makes no difference.
> 
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> -- 
> Leon Avery                                       (214) 648-4931 (voice)
> Department of Molecular Biology and Oncology              -1488 (fax)
> University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
> 5323 Harry Hines Blvd                            leon@eatworms.swmed.edu
> Dallas, TX  75235-9148                  http://eatworms.swmed.edu/~leon/
>-- End of excerpt from Leon Avery