On Wednesday 13 June 2001 09:03, Juha O Mustajarvi wrote:
> Hello, this seems to have been subject to quite a lot of
> messages lately, and yes, i've read a bunch of them.
>
> And while they've all been helpful in many ways, my actual
> problem remains still.
>
> My mandrake 8.0 has 3Com Fast Etherlink XL PCI 10/100 adapter,
> and is connected through DHCP. And the problem is, that the
> drivers for the adapter don't seem to work.
>
> Upon booting, the following is displayed (may be little
> inaccurate, since the screen sort of flashes by):
>
> Bringing up interface eth0
> 3c90x.0.gz has parameter switchdelay max < min
> [FAILED]
>
> The driver's readme identifies the switchdelay option as
> disabled by default. I tried to set it manually in
> modules.conf as
>
> options 3c90x switchdelay=1
>
> and received a slightly different error (boot time) saying
>
> unknown parameter 'M' for switchdelay
> insmod failed
>
> The problem can't reside in the connection itself, 'cos
> setting the connection manually with linuxconf doesn't work
> while connecting a w2k using dhcp works. I've also tried to
> reinstall the driver with rpm, and to recompile it from the
> source codes but both result in a screenful of various error
> messages from gcc / kgcc.
>
> If anybody could give me any hints on how i could fix this
> problem, i'd be really grateful (it's takem me three weeks by
> now, and i'm on the verge of switching back w or going back to
> store to get another adapter..). Thanks.
>
> Juha
>
> Tel. +35850/3256683
> Email. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> http://www.iki.fi/~jomustaj/
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
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.
Civileme
