[vortex] Tyan Thunder K7 S2462 Dual 3c59x

[Maurice Hilarius]

With regards to your message at 05:12 AM 1/15/02, Bogdan Costescu. Where 
you stated:
>On Mon, 14 Jan 2002, Maurice Hilarius wrote:
>
> > OK, I just realized this is the 982.
> > We also had problems with it.
> > Both in Linux AND in Windows.
> > In Linux what we saw was similar to this, and in Win2K it did not work 
> at all.
>
>With the drivers supplied by 3Com ? How nice ! So maybe it is Tyan who's
>garbling the EPROM. Or do they (whoever they are) expect _both_ interfaces
>to be configured based on only one EPROM (IIRC this also happens in the
>"tulip world") ?

At the time we were building a machine running Windows2000 server.
Customer had requested a dual ethernet card.
Windows install detected the card and installed drivers, which did not work.
Card showed up in Device Manager with an exclamation mark, ethernet 
services failed on startup.
Tried drivers from 3COM CD supplied with card, same results.
Checked 3COM drivers webpage for newer, found what was on CDROM is current.
Then tried installing Linux on same machine to see if card would work. It 
did not.
Sent back card under warranty, installed DLink 4 port tulip card, which 
worked, shipped computer to our customer.
Now we have back another 982 under warranty, still sitting  in box.
I am now wondering if the 982 is incompatible, so will test this on another 
Tyan Tiger MP board to determine if this is incompatible.


> > At the time I wrote it off as a bad card, but I wonder..
> > Maybe a BIOS incompatibility?
>
>In Kirk's case, they are on-board so the board maker should make sure that
>all components work together...
True. On Tyan Thunder boards we get a 3C920 chip, which simulates a pair of 
3C905C, and these work flawlessly.

> > We just got a replacement, so I will try to set one up tomorrow and see
> > what happens.
>
>If possible, please show us the output of "vortex-diag -ee" for both
>interfaces.


OK, will do.



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