[vortex] 3c905C-TX : not working in 100Mbps / Full Duplex ?

[Donald Becker]

On 9 Jan 2003, Emmanuel Viennet wrote:

> we use 3COM 3c905C-TX PCI adapters under
> linux 2.4.18 (RedHat 8.0 or 7.3), using
> 3c59x driver module.

What driver version?
What is the detection message?

> It works fine in 10 Mbps half-duplex, but we could'nt set it to 100/Full
> Duplex.

This is characteristic of the NIC being set to an invalid transceiver
setting.  My driver release checks for this, but the driver version in the
kernel does not.

Again, what is the full detection message?

> The adapter is connected directly to a CISCO 2900 10/100 switch.

Please read
   http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/473/46.html

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