[lug] 3Com 905c problem

[Doug Wendel]

Thanks for the information. I finally just put an Intel Pro/100B card in
there and everything's fine.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: lug-admin at lug.boulder.co.us
> [mailto:lug-admin at lug.boulder.co.us]On
> Behalf Of Wayde Allen
> Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2000 3:04 PM
> To: lug at lug.boulder.co.us
> Subject: RE: [lug] 3Com 905c problem
>
>
> On Wed, 12 Jan 2000, Doug Wendel wrote:
>
> > Sorry for not being completely clear in my first email: The
> 3com 905c NIC
> > never works. I do have the alias in my config file (alias
> eth0 3c59x)
> > already, but it doesn't help. I can load the driver, and it assigns
> > resources to the NIC, but I cannot get it on the network at all...
>
> What is your connection media - 10base2, 10baseT, or AUI?
> These cards are
> supposed to automatically detect the active port, but I find that the
> often don't.  In that case you have modify the EEPROM settings on the
> ethernet card itself.
>
> If you've got a bootable DOS floppy or a dualboot system you
> can fire up
> DOS and use the disk that came with the card.  If you'd rather do
> everything from Linux, there may be a configuration program
> that you can
> download.  The last time I needed to do this I found a program called
> 3c5x9setup.c.  The documentation in the program's header reads:
>
>    /* 3c5x9setup.c: Setup program for 3Com EtherLink III ethercards.
>
>       Copyright 1994-1999 by Donald Becker.  This version
> released under
>       the Gnu Public License, incorporated herein
>       by reference.  Contact the author for use under other terms.
>       This is a EEPROM setup and diagnostic program for the 3Com 3c5x9
>       series ethercards. Instructions are at
>       http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/diag/index.html
>
>       This program must be compiled with "-O"!  See the bottom of this
>       file for the suggested compile-command.
>
>       The author may be reached as becker at cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov.
>       C/O USRA-CESDIS, Code 930.5 Bldg. 28, Nimbus Rd.,
> Greenbelt MD 20771
>
>       References
>       The 3Com EtherLink III manual, available from 3Com
>       http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/diag/index.html
>    */
>
> I hope that this helps!
>
>
> - Wayde
>   (wallen at boulder.nist.gov)
>
>
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