Pleas Help! Serious problems with 3c905B and vortex driver.

Mon Jul 12 17:06:40 1999

Thanks, everybody who has tried to help me.

As it turned out, Kernel 2.2.5, the L driver and full_duplex=1 option made the
connection between my 3c905B cards work with 100Mbit / s and full duplex.
As it turns out, from the responses I've got there seems tho be great confusion
about which options to use / not to use with the 3c905B card.
The driver author suggests no options, since transmitter selection options
don't have any effect on this card.
Other people suggest options=20 which I have been using up to now, for kernels
below 2.2.4 and driver E. where it works fine, and is necessary to obtain the
right connection speed. (Autoprobing fails).

However, the problem with the cable-tv modem (10 Mbit /s and half duplex) with
any 3c59x driver and no options still persists. 'ifconfig' _do_ report packets
sent and received, the orange light flashes on the card but no connection can
be established. I just change
(conf.modules)

alias eth0 ne
to
alias eth0 3c59x

plug the cable into the 3c905B and expect it to work, since everything works
fine with the ne2000 card.
No errors are reported, but I don't even get a response when I ping my gateway.

Mr Becker suggests 'I have another problem', but in my humble opinion this must
be related to either the driver or the card itself (It works with the ne2000).
I've tried another 3c905B card, again without success....

So for now, I'm stuck with the ne2000 for the cable tv modem(which isn't too
bad after all).

If anybody can bring any clarity into this, it would be greatly appreciated.

/Thomas

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