[vortex] 3C905TX doesn't see 10Mbps hub till unplugged/replugged

Tobias Schorr schorr@hrzpub.tu-darmstadt.de
Tue, 20 Jun 2000 10:46:35 +0200 (CEST)


> 3c59x.c:v0.99Q 5/16/2000 Donald Becker, becker@scyld.com 
> http://www.scyld.com/network/vortex.html 
> eth0: 3Com 3c905 Boomerang 100baseTx at 0xef00,  00:60:08:38:e6:a1, IRQ 9 
> 8K word-wide RAM 3:5 Rx:Tx split, autoselect/MII interface. 
> MII transceiver found at address 24, status 7849. 
> Enabling bus-master transmits and whole-frame receives. 

Hmmm, autoselect did not work for me at all. Try to set the right mode
with the DOS tool 3c90xcfg.exe
My cards did not see the 100MBit switch at my location with autoselect enabled.
But setting them to 100MBit/FD works solid.
Hope that helps.

Bye ... Tobias

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