3c905TX problem

[Joachim =?iso-8859-1?Q?J=E4ckel?=]

Hi,
the same problem i have in a DEC PC 3010. With other operating systems
(PCNFS, Win95, Win NT) the card works fine, with Linux and the April 98
driver from Donald Becker it doesnt work.

>From another source, i can give you the following hint, but i can't test
wether it works:

Try to enable bus-mastering in the PCI Setup of the PC.

A bootprom-maker told me that the 3c905b has problems and the driver has
to initialize bus-mastering. The DEC PC doesn't offer this setting in
the SETUP, so I am interested in your experience.

Greetings from Berlin, Germany

Joachim Jaeckel


Brian Almeida wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> We are trying to get a 3Com 3c905TX card working on a Linux box (Slackware
> 3.3, Kernel 2.0.34).  The card is detected fine, however, it is unable
> to ping or be pinged.  Network settings are correct.  This card worked
> fine in NT Server 4.0 (what the customer had on it before).  Any suggestions?
> I've downloaded the updated 3c59x.c file, to no avail. I can send output
> from the vortex-diag program. Please cc me on replies as I am not subscribed
> to this list. Thanks.
> 
> Brian
> 
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