a question

[Neil Zanella]

Hello,

First of all, I would like to thank Donald Becker and the rest of the 
team for the wonderful work on the 3c59x.c driver.

Next, I would like to ask a question, if appropriate to this newsgroup:

I am thinking of purchasing the following card:

3Com Fast Etherlink XL
3c905B-TX   (this is *not* the 3c509B: I am aware of the difference here)
PCI
10/100Base-TX (RJ-45)
10 or 100 Mbps
NWay full-duplex auto-negotiation of speed

I have heared many different things about the current state of support for
this card. From what I could gather:

- 3c905B are not mentioned as supported in the Hardware-HOWTO

- kernel 2.0.35 comes with v0.99E of the driver and v0.99G is the latest and

probably best. Partial support seems to be included in 3c59x.c for this card.

- There are different versions of the 3c905B, namely:

Boomerang, Vortex, and Cyclone

and these names do not appear on the box as far as I could tell: one has 
to look at the card inside the box. As I haven't purchased one yet I 
cannot tell which one the card I intend to purchase uses yet.

- None of the cards supports 100Mbps yet.

- Some of the cards work at 10Mbps

So, my question is:

Which of Boomerang, Vortex, and Cyclone appear to work with either the 0.99E

or 0.99G or some other driver without running into problems?

I really appreciate your help,

Keep up the good work,

Best Regards,

Neil Zanella
please also reply in person to: nzanella@ganymede.cs.mun.ca