3c905B Problems

[Roberto P.Martins Jr.]

Hi,

I'm having problems with a 3Com 3c905B (Cyclone).
The NIC was inserted in a heavy loaded server and on the busiest hours it
freezes sometimes, leaving the server off-line. I log at console and everything
seems to be OK, but no one can ping me and I can't ping either.

After an ifconfig, I noticed a lot of overruns. I tried to use 3c59x and 3c90x
(from 3Com) modules without success.

Before hangs, I also notice the transmit speed decreasing and some messages
from NFS such as "NFS server not found"  and "server OK" .

After an ifdown and ifup the interface comes back...

We bought 3Com NICs only because of quality but with this problem
I'll probably have to use another NIC...

Thanks,
Roberto P.Martins Jr.