Red Hat 5.1 / Linux 2.0.35
Board: 3C905B-TX ASSY 03-0172-400 Rev A
Hardware connection description:
Server 3COM 3C905B-TX <------> 3Com 3C16732 Switch 10/100Mb
Time 0: Power-up Server (Switch already running)
Board set automatically at 100Mb
Time 1: Kernel boot:
Oct 31 22:19:55 srvr2 syslogd 1.3-3: restart.
Oct 31 22:19:56 srvr2 kernel: klogd 1.3-3, log source = /proc/kmsg
started.
Oct 31 22:19:56 srvr2 kernel: Loaded 4501 symbols from /boot/System.map.
Oct 31 22:19:56 srvr2 kernel: Symbols match kernel version 2.0.35.
Oct 31 22:19:56 srvr2 kernel: Loaded 25 symbols from 1 module.
Oct 31 22:19:56 srvr2 kernel: Console: 16 point font, 400 scans
Oct 31 22:19:56 srvr2 kernel: Console: colour VGA+ 80x25, 1 virtual
console (max 63)
Oct 31 22:19:56 srvr2 kernel: pcibios_init : BIOS32 Service Directory
structure at 0x000f9c20
Oct 31 22:19:56 srvr2 kernel: pcibios_init : BIOS32 Service Directory
entry at 0xf0550
Oct 31 22:19:56 srvr2 kernel: pcibios_init : PCI BIOS revision 2.10
entry at 0xf0750
Oct 31 22:19:56 srvr2 kernel: Probing PCI hardware.
Oct 31 22:19:56 srvr2 kernel: Calibrating delay loop.. ok - 233.47
BogoMIPS
Oct 31 22:19:56 srvr2 kernel: Memory: 192064k/196608k available (876k
kernel code, 384k reserved, 3108k data)
Oct 31 22:19:56 srvr2 kernel: Swansea University Computer Society
NET3.035 for Linux 2.0
Oct 31 22:19:56 srvr2 kernel: NET3: Unix domain sockets 0.13 for Linux
NET3.035.
Oct 31 22:19:56 srvr2 kernel: Swansea University Computer Society TCP/IP
for NET3.034
Oct 31 22:19:56 srvr2 kernel: IP Protocols: IGMP, ICMP, UDP, TCP
Oct 31 22:19:56 srvr2 kernel: VFS: Diskquotas version dquot_5.6.0
initialized
Board still running at 100Mb
LED 100 On both on board and Switch
Time 2: Drivers started
Oct 31 22:19:56 srvr2 kernel: eth0: 3Com 3c595 Vortex 100baseTX at
0xb400, 00:20:af:d2:04:04, IRQ 11
Oct 31 22:19:56 srvr2 kernel: 64K word-wide RAM 3:1 Rx:Tx split, NWay
Autonegotiation interface.
Oct 31 22:19:56 srvr2 kernel: eth0: Overriding PCI latency timer (CFLT)
setting of 32, new value is 248.
Oct 31 22:19:56 srvr2 kernel: 3c59x.c:v0.99E 5/12/98 Donald Becker
http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/vortex.html
Oct 31 22:19:56 srvr2 kernel: eth1: 3c509 at 0x300 tag 1, BNC port,
address 00 20 af a1 81 57, IRQ 5.
Oct 31 22:19:56 srvr2 kernel: 3c509.c:1.12 6/4/97
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Board still running at 100Mb
Time 3: Network started
Oct 31 22:19:56 srvr2 kernel: sysctl: ip forwarding off
Oct 31 22:19:56 srvr2 kernel: eth1: Setting Rx mode to 1 addresses.
Board switched to 10Mb
LED 100Mb off and 10Mb on
We turned around this problem replacing the 3C905B-TX board
by a 3C595-TX ASSY 03-0027-000-B
Nochanges applied to the kernel.
LAN is working fine with this board.
How about to use the 3C905B-TX ?
3C595-TX is out of market and not longer supplied in Switzerland.
Thanks guys.
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