[vortex] 3c905CX-TXM

[Berkan Eskikaya]

Hi, 

Thanks for the quick reply.

> > on the cards themselves the model id is given as 3c905CX-TXM.
> 
> Hmmm, "CX"???

Yes. I couldn't find any reference to 3c905CX at 3Com's site. A Google 
search brings back a page at Dell's support site, but they seem to use
3c905C and 3c905CX-TXM interchangeably: 

http://support.dell.com/docs/network/128fw/en/intro.htm

> Please confirm: Even 3Com's driver fails?

Yes, I can confirm that. Unless I'm overlooking something extremely obvious
(downloaded their driver -> compiled it as they've specified in their README
-> insmod -> ifconfig as in my previous message), it simply fails at the
ifconfig stage with "SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such device" and the debug messages:

Out WaitTimer
Packet not picked up by the hardware
TestAdapter: Out with error
NICOpen: TestAdapter failed
NICOpen: Out with error

 
> Does the card work with 10baseT?
> Does running 
>    mii-diag -A 0x01e1
> or
>    mii-diag -A 100baseTx
> or
>    mii-diag -F 100baseTx
> change anything?

No. They only caused some register values to change (don't know if this 
is significant), but still no link established.

> > $ vortex-diag -t 17 -p 0xc000 -a -f
> 
> Did you have to do this?  Did the vortex-diag program fail to find the card
> on its own?

Actually I don't remember why I did it like this. Without -t -p, it already
gives:

Index #1: Found a 3c905C Tornado 100baseTx adapter at 0xc000.


Can I send anything else?   

Cheers,

Berkan


PS: Of course, I guess there is always the possibility that all 4 cards that
I bought are faulty in some way. Is there anybody else on the list who's
got a 3c905CX-TXM?