[vortex-bug] 3c905C and DELL pentium

[Adam Koczarski]

It's actually 3x59x.c:v0.99L which works fine with my 2.2.18 system on a
generic K6-2-500 machine. I'll try the driver you suggested on the DELL. Is
this a DELL specific problem then?

Thanks!

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Adam Koczarski, PE, SE                           E-mail: ark@skilling.com
Senior Associate & Director of Information Systems
Skilling Ward Magnusson Barkshire Inc.                  Tel:(206)292-1200
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: morton@uow.edu.au [mailto:morton@uow.edu.au]On Behalf Of Andrew
> Morton
> Sent: Monday, February 26, 2001 2:26 PM
> To: Adam Koczarski
> Cc: vortex-bug@scyld.com
> Subject: Re: [vortex-bug] 3c905C and DELL pentium
>
>
> 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
>