3c905 won't work

[Lorris Woods]

I don't know a lot about Nic Cards, but I have 3c905B Cyclone w/ 3c59x 99E
(5/12/98 vortex) and I have had no problems. 

Thanx Much,

Lorris J. Woods

On Thu, 25 Feb 1999, Troels Arvin wrote:

> At 13:15 24-02-99 +0100, Marc Roberts <mro@aldoc.nl> wrote:
> >The card
> >is connected to a 3Com Superstack II TX hub at 100Mhz. On the card the
> >10Mbps link indicator is on and the Activity indicator is on all the
> >time.
> 
> I have the same problem with a 905 NIC connecting to a 100 mbit 3com switch.
> 
> I believe that a lot of 905 cards are buggy, but I can't document it - I
> can only say that I have had seriously bad problems with 905's on both
> Linux and Netware (on a Netware server, severe stability problems were
> cured by changing to a dirt-cheap Realtek NIC...). And I know several other
> people who have the same experiences. I a Danish newsgroup, a reseller said
> that close to 5% of their shipped 905's were returned due to problems.
> 
> About the 10mbit LED being active:
> Your card's auto-negotiation failed. The (not very elegant) cure: Keep
> connecting/unconnecting the network cable until the card finally
> understands that it's talking to a 100 mbit connection.
> 
> There are some 3com DOS utilites (see their web-site) which supposedly
> should be able to force the 905 NIC to use a certain connection speed.
> However, I haven't been able to make these DOS work as described :-(
> 
> The 905b NIC may be better. But after my 905 experiences, I have lost all
> confidence with 3com. I will never buy 3com NICs again.
> 
> 
> Greetings from Troels Arvin, Copenhagen, Denmark
> http://www.mdb.ku.dk/tarvin/
> 
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