[vortex] RX errors, kernel 2.4.4, 3Com 905B

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I am having some trouble getting my 3c905B (BNC) card
to work properly under kernel 2.4.4 (SMP). As it
worked fine with 2.2.14, I assume this is a driver
problem. The network is working, but very slow, and I
get the following from ifconfig:
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr
00:10:5A:DB:D0:39  
          inet addr:130.235.91.187 
Bcast:130.235.255.255  Mask:255.255.0.0
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500 
Metric:1
          RX packets:72131 errors:126 dropped:0
overruns:0 frame:228
          TX packets:1245 errors:0 dropped:0
overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:100 
          Interrupt:16 Base address:0xec00 

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback  
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:1130 errors:0 dropped:0
overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:1130 errors:0 dropped:0
overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 


I am using the 3c59x driver as a module, with options
in modules.conf as:
alias eth0 3c59x
options eth0 options=0x203 debug=3
Without options, I get "No route to host".

>From /var/log/messages:
May 18 09:39:03 naglfar kernel: 3c59x.c:LK1.1.13 27
Jan 2001  Donald Becker and others.
http://www.scyld.com/ne
twork/vortex.html 
May 18 09:39:03 naglfar kernel: See
Documentation/networking/vortex.txt 
May 18 09:39:03 naglfar kernel: eth0: 3Com PCI 3c900
Cyclone 10Mbps TPC at 0xec00,  00:10:5a:db:d0:39, IRQ
16 
May 18 09:39:03 naglfar kernel:   product code 5051
rev 00.4 date 12-07-98 
May 18 09:39:03 naglfar kernel:   8K byte-wide RAM 5:3
Rx:Tx split, autoselect/Autonegotiate interface. 
May 18 09:39:03 naglfar kernel:   Media override to
transceiver type 3 (10base2). 
May 18 09:39:03 naglfar kernel:   Enabling bus-master
transmits and whole-frame receives. 
May 18 09:39:03 naglfar kernel: eth0: scatter/gather
enabled. h/w checksums enabled 
May 18 09:39:03 naglfar kernel: eth1: 3Com PCI 3c905B
Cyclone 100baseTx at 0xe880,  00:c0:4f:68:47:79, IRQ
19 
May 18 09:39:03 naglfar kernel:   product code 4920
rev 00.0 date 07-03-97 
May 18 09:39:03 naglfar kernel:   8K byte-wide RAM 5:3
Rx:Tx split, autoselect/Autonegotiate interface. 
May 18 09:39:03 naglfar kernel:   MII transceiver
found at address 24, status 7809. 
May 18 09:39:03 naglfar kernel:   Enabling bus-master
transmits and whole-frame receives. 
May 18 09:39:03 naglfar kernel: eth1: scatter/gather
enabled. h/w checksums enabled 
May 18 09:39:06 naglfar kernel: eth0: Media override
to transceiver 3 (10base2). 
May 18 09:39:11 naglfar modprobe: modprobe: Can't
locate module char-major-5

lspci yields:
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 440BX/ZX -
82443BX/ZX Host bridge (rev 03)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 440BX/ZX -
82443BX/ZX AGP bridge (rev 03)
00:07.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82371AB PIIX4
ISA (rev 02)
00:07.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82371AB PIIX4
IDE (rev 01)
00:07.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82371AB
PIIX4 USB (rev 01)
00:07.3 Bridge: Intel Corporation 82371AB PIIX4 ACPI
(rev 02)
00:0d.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation
3c900B-TPC [Etherlink XL TPC] (rev 04)
00:11.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c905B
100BaseTX [Cyclone]
00:13.0 PCI bridge: Digital Equipment Corporation
DECchip 21152 (rev 03)
01:00.0 Display controller: Texas Instruments TVP4020
[Permedia 2] (rev 01)

I do not know much about this stuff, so any help is
welcome.

Best regards,

Mikael Borg


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