Date: Wed, 1 May 2002 23:15:28 -0700 From: Peter Hessler <phessler@theapt.org> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 3Com 3c905C-TX Message-ID: <200205012315.28425.phessler@theapt.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44-Blink.0205020740120.2142-100000@deepthought.blinkenlights.nl> References: <Pine.LNX.4.44-Blink.0205020740120.2142-100000@deepthought.blinkenlights.nl>
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I have had nothing but success with 3c905x, or 3c509 cards. I have them=20 in my web/dns/mail server, my firewall, and my workstation. I also use=20 them quite a bit at work. Never had any problem with any OS (FreeBSD,=20 OpenBSD, Windows 95). Just thought I would throw that out. On Wednesday 01 May 2002 10:53 pm, Sten wrote: > On Wed, 1 May 2002, Glendon Gross wrote: > > Out of curiosity, do only 3c509's exibit this behavior, or is this > > the core problem with 3c59x's as well? My experiences have not > > been consistent with these cards, and I had assumed it was due > > to buggy code in the 3-Com chipset. I've noticed flaky behavior > > from the "Vortex" [3c59x] card as well. > > I would assume is the chipset, because just out of the blue redoing > negotiation doesnt seem like something that a sane driver would do. > The most probable thing is that the card interprets normal traffic > erronously as negotiation signals. > > > Just now I have been wrestling with an ISA 3c509 which has > > a Lucent 40-01304 chip on it. At first the card was detected, and > > later not detected [on a different OS.] I vote for the fxp's as > > well, I've had hardly any problems with them. > > > > Is there a way to lock down the card by hacking the driver, so it > > won't try to auto-negotiate the connection? > > Like I said forcing it ( with the dos config tool ) helps, > and solves the problems in most cases. > But it's pretty workable when you force both sides. --=20 Peter Hessler <phessler@theapt.org> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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