3Com 3C905B

[Wayne Pascoe]

Hi all...

I've just joined this list so please excuse me if the question I'm asking is
common knowledge...

I've just replaced my 3Com 3C905 with a 3C905B... When I first tried it I
got a hardware address of just f's (ff:ff:ff:ff).  I read some stuff and
then disabled my pnp aware os and that sorted out the mac address... It now
looks realistic. But I still couldn't ping anything. I checked the card
under SCO and Windows and it works fine there... I then downloaded a new
3C59x.c driver dated 8/7/98... The line I got this information from was

"3c59x.c:v0.99F 8/7/98 Donald Becker
http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/vortex.html\n";

I dumped this into my /usr/src/linux/drivers/net and recompiled... It still
doesn't see the outside world....

Yet if I just down the box and put the 905 in it works fine...

I'd really appreciate ANY help that anyone can give wrt this...

TIA

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