[vortex] 3C905B-TX Can't See Network

[Donald Becker]

On Tue, 18 Dec 2001, Dylan Hennessy wrote:

> I'm having problems with a 3Com 3C905B-TX Card in a Compaq machine running
> Red Hat 6.2. If I use the 3C59x module everything seems to be working and
> the interface comes up. but I can only ping the IP assigned to the
> interface. I cannot see the rest of the network. When I ping (anyone except
> myself) the TX field increases and so does the carrier field (Im not sure
> what that means).

Those are "carrier errors".

> 3c59x.c:v0.99H 11/17/98 Donald Becker
> http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/vortex.html
> eth1: 3Com 3c905B Cyclone 100baseTx at 0x3000,  00:01:02:e0:52:7d, IRQ 17
> 8K byte-wide RAM 5:3 Rx:Tx split, autoselect/Autonegotiate interface.
> MII transceiver found at address 24, status 7849.

You don't have link beat.  Check the cable and the link LEDs.

You can use 'mii-diag eth1' to check the status of the link
     http://www.scyld.com/diag/index.html



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