[vortex] Troubles with 3c905c

[Bogdan Costescu]

On Mon, 10 Jul 2000, Raphael Vallazza wrote:

> 3. when i load the linux driver, i always get the
>    following checksum error:
>    
>    3c59x.c:v0.99L 5/28/99 Donald Becker

This is an old version of the driver which does not include the support
for autonegotiation on 3C905C. Please use either:

- the driver from recent ( >= 2.2.15) kernels, also available from
	http://www.uow.edu.au/~andrewm/linux
- Donald Becker's driver (0.99Q or later) available from
	http://www.scyld.com/network/vortex.html

> http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/vortex.html
>    3Com 3c905C Tornado at 0xb400,  ***INVALID CHECKSUM 0003*** 

This is harmless and is caused by bogus data that is present (for unknown
reasons) in the EEPROM. The recent drivers supress printing of this
message for 3C905C boards.

Regards,

Bogdan Costescu

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