On Wednesday 13 June 2001 15:27, Aleksey Naumov wrote:
> Civileme,
>
> I am in the same boat with Juha, I have a 3C905B-Combo and
> just can't get it to work using either DHCP or static setup
> (but it works in both ways
> under Win98).
>
> civileme wrote:
> > I have three of those cards, identical in model number and
> > decignation 3C905C types.
> >
> > All three run like champs under 8.0 with fixed IPs
>
> What driver module do you use? Can you load "3c90x"?
> I get the same problem as Juha when I try to load it.
> "3c59x" loads fine but gets me nowhere (no network connection)
>
> > One will run with dchp but not with dhcpcd, only with
> > dhcp-client. The others seem to be allergic to dhcp.
> >
> > 3C905Bs have no troubles whatsoever.
>
> Are your 3C905Bs combos (i.e. 3C905B-Combo), and if so
> then what interface do you actually use?
>
> Aleksey
Nope have never seen a combo. It is not unusual to find
hardware working under windows with a windows driver written by
the manufacturer. It doesn't mean a linux developer has seen
the device and been able to tweak a current driver for it.
But just for fun, why don't you visit a friendly local hacker
site and try playing with the MAC address on the card. If you
find all Zeroes or something similar it would not be surprising
at all. 3Com cards can all have their MAC addresses overwritten.
Civileme
