[vortex-bug] 3c905C and DELL pentium

[Adam Koczarski]

Thanks for the help, that did the trick!!

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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
1301 Fifth Ave, #3200,  Seattle  WA 98101-2699          Fax:        -1201 


> -----Original Message-----
> From: vortex-bug-admin@scyld.com [mailto:vortex-bug-admin@scyld.com]On
> Behalf Of Bogdan Costescu
> Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2001 3:12 AM
> To: Adam Koczarski
> Cc: Andrew Morton; vortex-bug@scyld.com
> Subject: RE: [vortex-bug] 3c905C and DELL pentium
> 
> 
> On Mon, 26 Feb 2001, Adam Koczarski wrote:
> 
> > 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?
> 
> 0.99L is almost 2 years old. The problem with your system is 
> that the card
> is of 905CX (notice the X) type which has some small 
> differences w.r.t.
> 905C type and which was introduced in production late last year.
> It's a 3Com specific problem, but it seems like Dell is using 
> these new
> cards in their computers.
> 
> Sincerely,
> 
> Bogdan Costescu
> 
> IWR - Interdisziplinaeres Zentrum fuer Wissenschaftliches Rechnen
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> 
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