3c905 problems

[julio cesar hegedus]

Hi all, 

First of all, sorry about my poor english, please be patient!

I having a lot of trouble with this NIC, my network hangs every day,
and I would to know why.

We got 9 Linux based servers with 300 stations on with IPX (mars_nwe)
and TCP/IP, and a lot of traffic!

I've downloaded the vortexdiag and mii-diag from Becker's stuff and
some weird reports, sounds like my NIC doesn't works well
(3c905b-tx-nm), or **LINK JABBER** (Why that? in 3c905-tx).

So I try the v0.99L in a 2.2.10 kernel, the things get more weird!!

The vortexdiag and the mii-diag reports the following:

#>mii-diag -v

--------cutted--------
MII PHY #24 transceiver registers:
 3000 786d 0000 0000 01e1 0020 0004 2001
 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
 0000 0008 0810 0000 0000 0005 2001 0000
 0000 2040 07cf 1c11 0111 1000 0000 0000.
Basic mode control register 0x3000: Auto-negotiation enabled.
You have link beat, and everything is working OK.
 This trasceiver is capable of 100baseTx-Fd 100baseTx 10baseT-FD
10baseT.
 Able to perform Auto-negotiation, negotiation complete.
Your link partner is generating 10baseT link beat.

and the strange thing:

#> ifconfig

eth0 ----cutted----
RX: 900 errors: 0 dropped: 0 
TX: 0 errors: 50539 dropped: 561

What is this?? I sendind this email trough this NIC now.. what is the
true about this programs?

Please I need help!

[]'s
Julio
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