[vortex] Tyan Thunder K7 S2462 Dual 3c59x

[Martin Siegert]

On Mon, Jan 14, 2002 at 09:24:09PM -0700, Maurice Hilarius wrote:
> With regards to your message at 09:41 AM 1/14/02, Kirk Bocek. Where you stated:
> >Maurice, no the second IDE is not disabled. It is in use.
> >
> >Bogdan, yes I've correctly configured eth1. Here's the relevant part of the
> >"lspci -v" output:
> >
> >***********************
> >00:0f.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c982 Dual Port Server Cyclone
> >(rev 78)
> >         Subsystem: Tyan Computer: Unknown device 2462
> >         Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 80, IRQ 12
> >         I/O ports at 1c00 [size=128]
> >         Memory at f4004000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=128]
> >         Expansion ROM at <unassigned> [disabled] [size=128K]
> >         Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 2
> >
> >00:10.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation: Unknown device 9807 (rev 78)
> >         Subsystem: Tyan Computer: Unknown device 6301
> >         Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 11
> >         I/O ports at 1c80 [size=128]
> >         Memory at f4004400 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=128]
> >         Expansion ROM at <unassigned> [disabled] [size=128K]
> >         Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 2
> >***********************
> >
> >The first device (ID 9805) installs just fine. The second (ID 9807) refuses
> >to be recognized.
> >
> >I've tried the 3Com 3c90x driver (version 1.02). It behaves the same way as
> >the 3c59x.
> >
> >Thanks,
> >Kirk Bocek
> 
> 
> 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.
> 
> At the time I wrote it off as a bad card, but I wonder..
> Maybe a BIOS incompatibility?

For what it is worth:

I am using the Tyan Thunder K7 S2462 and its two onboard 3Com NICs without
any problems (using BIOS version 2.09, but 2.02, 2.06, and 2.07a worked the
same way with respect to the NICs).

Here is the output of lspci -v:

===========================================================================
00:0f.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c982 Dual Port Server Cyclone (rev 78)
	Subsystem: Tyan Computer: Unknown device 2462
	Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 80, IRQ 3
	I/O ports at 2480 [size=128]
	Memory at f4008c00 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=128]
	Expansion ROM at <unassigned> [disabled] [size=128K]
	Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 2

00:10.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c982 Dual Port Server Cyclone (rev 78)
	Subsystem: Tyan Computer: Unknown device 2462
	Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 80, IRQ 11
	I/O ports at 2800 [size=128]
	Memory at f4009000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=128]
	Expansion ROM at <unassigned> [disabled] [size=128K]
	Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 2
===========================================================================

Secondly: I doubt (but I am not an expert) that this is a 3c982. These
are the two onboard NICs (which aren't dual port NICs) - the writing on the
chips says "3COM 920-ST03". Thus I always thought, despite the message
from lspci, that these are 3c920 NICs.

Anyway, I am using the 3c59x driver from the 2.4.13 kernel (LK1.1.16) without
problems.

Martin

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