[vortex] 3c905CX-TX-NM

[Bogdan Costescu]

On Mon, 17 Jun 2002, Christian Welzel wrote:

> $> vortex-diag -p 0x9000 -t 17 -ee
> vortex-diag.c:v2.06 4/18/2002 Donald Becker (becker@scyld.com)
>  http://www.scyld.com/diag/index.html
> Assuming a 3c905C Tornado 100baseTx adapter at 0x9000.
> EEPROM format 64x16, configuration table at offset 0:
>       ...
> 
>  The word-wide EEPROM checksum is 0000.

You omitted exactly the interesting part, the EEPROM dump... It should 
have been mostly filled with "ffff", but I wanted to see if there are 
(and where) any non "ffff" values.

> the cards are regognized at boot time and the BIOS says:
> 0	13	0	10B7	FFFF	Network Controller	3
> 
> when i plug in a cable, the light changes to green and is flickering.
> but no drivers accepts these chards...

Then most probably the card is OK and just needs a working EEPROM.

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Bogdan Costescu

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