[vortex] Hello, driver question.

[Harley D. Eades III]

Bogdan Costescu <Bogdan.Costescu at iwr.uni-heidelberg.de> writes:

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> On 23 May 2005, Harley D. Eades III wrote:
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> > I can see using tcpdump that arp request looking for the default
> > gateway are sent and ack's are sent from the gateway, but the
> > TORNADO does not pick them up.
> 
> This sounds very much like you are using a 3C905CX (notice CX instead 
> of C) which does not do the RxReset operation within the documented 
> time interval; the 3c59x driver was also affected by this, you can 
> search the archives of this list to find more details and how the 
> 3c59x driver deals with this problem.
> 
Yup I set the wait before each RxRest and all is now working.

> > I have noticed while reading the list that people say read this
> > documentation here and there but none of the links work, where can I
> > find any docs regarding the vortex drivers?
> 
> Well, as I wrote before, when I downloaded the documentation from 3Com
> I agreed to not redistribute it; probably most (or all) of those that
> downloaded it are bound by the same condition. Somebody from 3Com that
> supposedly monitored this list promised to look into adding the
> documentation back to the web site, so you could download it just as
> we did. Unfortunately this is the last that I heard about it... You
> can try contacting 3Com (maybe the tach support) and asking them 
> directly for the file.
Will do.

Thanks alot.
Harley