0.99H vs. 0.99E on a Boomerang

Rob Clark clarkc2@rpi.edu
Sun Jan 10 17:00:46 1999


Just to report my experience with this darn card so far:
0.99E: causes a skb_put kernel panic after about 3 weeks
0.99F & 0.99G: never got them to work right.
0.99H: seems okay for a while, then after 3 days suddenly loses its mind
and acts like
       name resolution has failed.  Pings come through in bursts.

I'm sorry I can't be more precise.  I tried bumping up the debug level, but
that would be
a lot of output over three days, just at debug level = 3.

Also (successfully) using a few 905B Vortex's with 0.99E and the options set.

3Com SuperStack II hub
 
3c59x.c:v0.99H 11/17/98 Donald Becker
http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/vortex.html
eth0: 3Com 3c905 Boomerang 100baseTx at 0xfcc0,  00:60:08:31:09:aa, IRQ 11
8K word-wide RAM 3:5 Rx:Tx split, autoselect/MII interface.
MII transceiver found at address 24, status 786f.
Enabling bus-master transmits and whole-frame receives.
eth0: MII #24 status 786f, link partner capability 40a1, setting
half-duplex.