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Subject: Re: vx driver(s) - bad powerup behaviour
To: gena@NetVision.net.il (Gennady Sorokopud)
Date: Fri, 1 Nov 1996 12:36:58 +0100 (MET)
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In reply to Gennady Sorokopud who wrote:
> 
> Hello!
> 
> I'm running -current and i have similar problrms with vx driver. On startup it
> refuses to work, and i need to do ifconfig vx0 up/down few times untill it
> starts functioning...
> my dmesg says:
> 
> vx0 <3Com 3c590 EtherLink III PCI> rev 0 int a irq 9 on pci0:11
> utp[*UTP*] address 00:20:af:f7:f2:dd
> vx0: eeprom failed to come ready.
> 
> I also tried some other 3c590 card, but then dmesg sayd something like:
> "Warning! Defective early revision adapter!" and results were exactly the same.

Have you tried the new driver in incoming ??, it fixed the up/down
problem for me, but I didn't see the other one. Remember that the
version in -current almost always says its a defective card,
even if it isn't :(


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