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

[ZIGLIO Frediano]

> 
> 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.
> 

Hi all.

This is the best solution I found and work very good. Used with mii-diag to
set speed and duplex solve all my problems. 
However if you set speed/duplex correctly in EEPROM mii-diag do not work
anymore and also network do not run (with or without correct options to
3c59x driver).

I used driver provided with 2.4.20.

bye
  Frediano Ziglio

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