[vortex-bug] 3c905C and DELL pentium

[Andrew Morton]

Adam Koczarski wrote:
> 
> I'm trying to setup a Linux system for a friend on a Dell. I copied my
> working system over to his machine and installed a 3c905c. The system
> <appears> to boot fine, iconfig on the NIC looks good, but the link comes up
> 10Mbit and I can't ping or access the LAN in any way.
> 
> When the system boots I get the following lines during the NIC startup:
> 
> eth0:
> MII transceiver found at address 1, status 24.
> MII transceiver found at address 2, status 24.
> 
> This doesn't match my system messages as I get something like:
> 
> MII transceiver found at address 24, status 782d.
> 

What version of the driver are you using?

It's probably a 3c905CX.  If it's kernel 2.2, you'll
need http://www.uow.edu.au/~andrewm/linux/3c59x.c-2.2.19pre11.gz