3c905B support ??

[Dirk Porezag]

Thanks to everyone responding to my question. I'm using Suse Linux 2.0.35
not RedHat - though I don't have a stromg preference for either I won't
wipe out the whole OS. At least not for now ;-).
But it looks like trying a newer Kernel might be
something worth trying. The thing that puzzles me is that the driver
finds TWO MII transceivers:

3c59x.c:v0.99G 9/25/98 Donald Becker http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/v
ortex.html
eth0: 3Com 3c905B Cyclone 100baseTx at 0xdc00,  00:10:4b:0f:98:86, IRQ 11
  8K byte-wide RAM 5:3 Rx:Tx split, autoselect/Autonegotiate interface.
  MII transceiver found at address 24, status 7849.
  MII transceiver found at address 0, status 7849.
  Enabling bus-master transmits and whole-frame receives.

I've tried both the 0.99E and 0.99G drivers they both won't work.
Maybe it has to do with the BIOS/Motherboard. I'm using a Dell Precision 410.
One thing that was weird in the first place was that the driver found a
3c905b built in when I booted the machine for the first time (without ANY
network card plugged in). I had to "Disable onboard NIC" in the Dell BIOS
to make this message disappear. To my knowledge, I don't have an onboard
NIC - at least it doesn't say anything on the bill ;-). Anyway, the same
machine works fine if I use one of the older 3c905 without the B at the
end ...