[vortex] eth1: 3Com Vortex at 0x6000, ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff, IRQ 3 :(

[jon707@kollegiegaarden.dk]

i have a EISA 3c597-TX that doesnt work. I suspect it is because it gets
the MAC address ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff.

I've looked at http://www.scyld.com/network/kern_compat.h
in which i found 
http://www.scyld.com/network/updates.html
http://www.scyld.com/expert/modules.html
http://www.scyld.com/diag/index.html


>From http://www.scyld.com/diag/index.html downloading
mii-diag i get this when i run it.

mail:~# ./mii-diag eth1
Basic registers of MII PHY #0:  ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff.
  No MII transceiver present!.



So, on http://www.scyld.com/expert/modules.html i read
"What if the card is detected with a ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff station address?"

None of the errors i read there can be for me, because
1) it's an OLD AT mb, so power off is power off, no warm booting here
2) the mb does have pci, but the card is EISA, not pci.
   (i cant check the bios, as there is no bios on the mb)
3) might be broken pcibios, but the card isnt pci.

So i decided to try the suggestion of using the latest driver.
On http://www.scyld.com/network/updates.html
i read "Installing Individual Drivers" 
But when ever i try to compile 3c59x.c i get

pony:/usr/src/modules# cc -DMODULE -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O6 -c
3c59x.c
3c59x.c:89: linux/modversions.h: No such file or directory
In file included from 3c59x.c:112:
kern_compat.h:42: linux/modversions.h: No such file or directory
kern_compat.h:142: unterminated `#else' conditional


So, now i'm writing for help.
My system to run at is:
dual p100, 48 MB fpm memory (anyone in denmark that has more fpm memory ??)
dpt scsi raid controller.
running debian potato and kernel Linux mail 2.2.18pre21 #1 Sat Nov 18
18:47:15 EST 2000 i586 unknown
The mb is an old old one, possibly one of the first dual pentiums.

compiling machine:
dual p200mmx, 128 ram, tyan tomcat IV mb.


If the new driver doesnt work, can i FORCE a solution through, by setting
and using a different MAC address than FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF ??




ion++