[vortex] 3C900B Serious Problems

[Donald Becker]

On Tue, 2 Jan 2001, Shawn Starr wrote:

> Fine, but now i get collisions when i have none before?
> 
>           RX packets:15022 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>           TX packets:7183 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>           collisions:220 txqueuelen:100

Collisions are normal when you have a half duplex network.
They do not indicate an error.

> As i stated before, 3COM's driver doesnt give me any of these problems.
> But they do not have a 2.4 release out (or will).

3Com's driver should also report collisions.

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