3C900-combo

[Donald Becker]

On Wed, 24 Mar 1999, Paul Tod Rieger wrote:

> I have a 10 Mb/sec 3Com 3C900-combo card.  I have insmod'd the 8390 and  
> 3c59x driver modules (Linux 2.0.36, Debian 2.1) -- and am able to ping my  
> own IP.

You don't need to load 8390 for the 3c900.
The only 3Com card that needs the 8390.o core is the very old 3c503.

> However, the 10Base2 (bus) and 10BaseT (hub) connections seem dead to  
> the world.  Is there another driver version I could try now?  (I'm not a  
> driver developer, but I'd be willing to help debug this.)  Both  
> connections had worked on Solaris 7, Intel.

What is the detection message?
  Are you using the media type that you expect?
Check /proc/net/dev to see if you are sending packets.
  If so, you likely have a routing problem.
Check /proc/interrupts to verify that you are getting interrupts.

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