From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 29 15:57:00 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA26734 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 29 Apr 1998 15:57:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from bastuba.partitur.se (bastuba.partitur.se [193.219.246.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA26540 for ; Wed, 29 Apr 1998 15:55:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from girgen@partitur.se) Received: from partitur.se (t8o62p20.telia.com [195.198.199.200]) by bastuba.partitur.se (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA21513; Thu, 30 Apr 1998 00:55:19 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from girgen@partitur.se) Message-ID: <3547AFB3.3C308EE4@partitur.se> Date: Thu, 30 Apr 1998 00:54:43 +0200 From: Palle Girgensohn Organization: Partitur X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.6-STABLE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Damien DIXSAUT CC: Roy Teahen , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 3C905B-TX, 3C90X, NIC and vx driver References: <199804291806.UAA15306@cristal.cristal.asso.fr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Damien DIXSAUT wrote: > > > > > I guess I spoke too soon. The cards will be found during the probe > > and the vx driver will be loaded but once I configure the network > > card the system will hang. The card will not communicate with the vx > > Ah ah... So, I'm not the only one having this problem. > > FYI, since my last message about this problem, I have tried > many things, including plugging the card in another machine and > installing a brand new FreeBSD 2.2.6 on it, and I still get > the same hang problem. > > I tend to believe that the vx driver works whith 3C905 chips but > not whith 3C905B chips. > > After all, maybe 3COM had a good reason to change the device number ? > > Now I guess we just have to wait until an updated version of the > driver comes out. > > --- Just FYI, I've had big troubles w/ vx and 3c905. Apparently, nothing has been done to the driver since 1996, and it's marked as buggy. :( I had a 3c905 on our server running 10 Mpbs, and it worked OK. After changing to 100 Mbps, I got 1 (one!) Mbps from a Solaris machine, and had to run most other fbsd workstations on 10 Mbps for anything to work. Worked fine in cooperation with windows machines w/ the same NIC, though. Anyway, I threw it out. Now using an SMC, and everything is a OK. /Palle To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message