Re: 3c905b-combo - no traffic

[Lars Täuber <taeuber@bbaw.de>]

Christoph Neerfeld schrieb:
> 
> On 17-Mar-00 Greg Beeley wrote:
> >
> > Lars Täuber wrote:
> >> I've got an 3c905b-combo card and put the needed data on a floppy to
> >> boot
> >> over network. the rom seems to be correctly loaded and the machine says
> >> that
> >> it seeks for a dhcp server.
> >> <sleep>
> >> <sleep>
> >> <sleep>
> >> ....
> >>  but the is nothing on the net (tcpdump). when i
> >> boot linux on the client the network is aviable and i can ping, telnet
> >> ....
> >>
> >> what's wrong?
> >
> > Hmmm... it's a shortcoming of the 3c90x driver -- with the combo card it
> > picks one of the available transceivers without actually doing a link
> > test as specified in the 3c905b spec manual (even the typical link beat
> > test isn't sufficient -- a "real" driver should send a self-directed
> > packet over the transceiver and see if it comes back or not.  If it does,
> > the link is up).  I guess I'm a lazy driver writer :)
> >
> > To work around it, set CFG_3C90X_XCVR to the appropriate value
> as listed
> > in src/3c90x.txt, when you build the ROM image.
> 
> I ran into the same problem today with some old 3c900-combo cards.
> 
> Where do I have to set CFG_3C90X_XCVR ? I tried to add -DCFG_3C90X_XCVR=0 in
> the file Config but that didn't help.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Chris
> 
> > Greg.
> 
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> Christoph Neerfeld <Christoph.Neerfeld@home.ivm.de>
>                    <chris@kde.org>

this is exactly what i did (with =0 and =255) but nothing helped)

any other solution?

thanks so far


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Lars Täuber
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