[vortex] cannot activate eth0 (3c59x [duh]) in RH8.0 dual boot system

[Ruben van der Leij]

On Mon, 2003-02-03 at 04:24, Jordan Weber-Flink wrote:

> Please, advise me. I need to get this network running.

> 3c59x: Donald Becker and others. www.scyld.com/network/vortex.html
> 00:0c.0: 3Com PCI 3c905B Cyclone 100baseTx at 0xd800. Vers LK1.1.18-ac
>  ***INVALID CHECKSUM 0011*** <7>divert: atex

Please download the following file:

ftp://ftp.3com.com/pub/nic/3c90x/3c90x2.exe

Unpack to a floppy-disk (it's an self-extracting archive).

Boot from a DOS-system disk. Swap and start the DOS config and
diagnostic program. 3C90XCFG.EXE. Restore all defaults (plug&play,
auto-negotiation) and save those to EEPROM. 

That should both your inability to negotiate a common linkspeed and
-duplex and fix your 'INVALID CHECKSUM'-error.

-- 
Ruben van der Leij <ruben@nutz.nl>