[vortex] RH7 and 3C905B Problems

[Bogdan Costescu]

On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, Mark Ridley wrote:

> Anyway, I have a box running RedHat 7 that has a 3C905B, that is connected,
> back-to-back with a Window 98 box. It seems that whenever I transfer large
> amounts of data, ifconfig reports frame errors, than the networking just
> grinds to a halt after say 2 minutes of activity.
>
> This is so annoying since it didn't used to happen in RedHat 6.2... any help
> much appreciated and will save the handfuls of hair that I have already
> pulled out! :)

AFAIK, both RH6.2 and RH7 provide two drivers for this card: the 3c59x
driver originally written by Donald Becker and the 3c90x driver by 3Com.
What driver are you using now and what driver did you use before ?

You can also download vortex-diag and mii-diag from
http://www.scyld.com/network/vortex.html to help understand what is going
on.

Finally: are there any error messages reported in the logs ?

Sincerely,

Bogdan Costescu

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