On Sat, May 11, 2002 at 10:33:14AM +0300, Shachar Shemesh wrote: > Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote: > > > The word-wide EEPROM checksum is 0000. > >Saved EEPROM settings of a 3Com Vortex/Boomerang: > > 3Com Node Address FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF (used as a unique ID only). > > OEM Station address ff:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF (used as the ethernet address). > > Device ID ffff, Manufacturer ID ffff. > > Manufacture date (MM/DD/YYYY) 15/31/. > > A BIOS ROM of size 960Kx8 is expected. > > Options: force full duplex, link beat check disabled. > > Vortex format checksum is incorrect (0000 vs. ffff). > > Cyclone format checksum is incorrect (00 vs. 0xff). > > Hurricane format checksum is incorrect (00 vs. 0xff). > > > > > >Any ideas who I should contact to pursue this further? I want to get > >this sucker to work. > > Is it just me, or is your MAC address the ethernet broadcast > address?
I think so too. > It seems a little like you have a faulty NIC, as that ID is unlikely to > be the real one. Andrew Morton (author of one of the linux drivers for cards of this family) pointed me towards 3com's dos based setup utility. I tried setting this card up on win95 with it, to no avail. I'll try to test it on a reasonably recent version of windows, as well as get a replacement card. Thanks for your help. -- The ill-formed Orange Fails to satisfy the eye: http://vipe.technion.ac.il/~mulix/ Segmentation fault. http://syscalltrack.sf.net/ ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
