[vortex] [3c905C-TX-M] can't compile driver for 2.4.18

Hans-Peter Jansen hpj@urpla.net
Thu Jun 6 10:52:01 2002


On Thu, 06 Jun 2002 00:02:50 +0200
"Chris Wesdorp" <chriswesdorp@planet.nl> wrote:

> Hi you all,
> 
> i've just bought a new pc with the nic named in the topic.
> I heard it must be a great card but i have some problems with
> it under my current LFS ( www.linuxfromscratch.org ). 
> 
> 1) I use the 3c59x driver support by the kernel, works fine until
> using samba. Slow network traffic and lots of colision.

Sounds like a config problem. I'm using these cards a lot without
those problems with samba, netatalk, nfs (diskless clients).

Check duplex mode, irq sharings, and the like. (cableing?)

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> 
> Chris
> 

Cheers,
  Hans-Peter