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Sent: Friday, January 12, 2001 1:12 AM
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Subject: Re: [Cooker] Problems with 3Com 3c905C-TX
> Curious...
> I also have a 3com905C, and i use the 3c59x driver on a 2.2.17 kernel
> without problem. I also tested it on a 2.4.0pre-release. It is the one
from
> www.scyld.com, written by Donald Becker, that is considered glabally
better
> as 3c90x driver, written by 3COM themselves. Both are in kernel 2.2
> sources, so you should be able to compile them without problems. See this
> post on mandrake archive list, and this page on scyld.com for details:
> http://www.mail-archive.com/cooker%40linux-mandrake.com/msg22893.html
> http://www.scyld.com/network/vortex.html
> I also had problems with DHCP, but as our DHCP servers are are very
> ill-configured, i assume those are not driver's issues.
> --
> Guillaume Rousse
>
> Murphy's law : If anything can go wrong, it will.
> O'Tool's commentary : Murphy was an optimist.
I tried to compile the driver from the source provided by Mandrake, by 3Com,
and by www.scyld.com. None of the 3c59x would work. The only driver that I
could get to work was the 3c90x, but I couldn't get it to work automatically
on bootup. I had to manually load the driver, and manually "ifup eth0."
I tried everything I could think of. I tried re-installing several times,
with PnP turned off, and turned on. The 3c59x driver just plain wouldn't
work under *any* Linux distro I tried. Only the 3c90x would work.
I eventually solved the problem by getting an Intel EtherExpress Pro 100
instead. It works beautifully. However, when I first installed it, I
couldn't get it to work either. It wouldn't work under Windows 9x/Windows
2000/ or Linux. Finally, I tried unplugging the cable modem and plugging it
back in. Now it works. Evidently the cable modem had something stored in
NVRAM which got cleared out when I unplugged it. It's possible that that
might have been the problem with the 3com 3c59x driver, but since I've
removed it, I haven't been able to test out that theory.
Raymond S. Swaim
