On Wed, Feb 16, 2005 at 08:04:52PM +0100, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 08:19:12PM +0000, Frederick Bruckman wrote:
> > > ex0: 3Com 3c905C-TX 10/100 Ethernet with mngmt (rev. 0x78)
> > > exphy0 at ex0 phy 24: 3Com internal media interface
> > > ex1: 3Com 3c905C-TX 10/100 Ethernet with mngmt (rev. 0x78)
> > > bmtphy0 at ex1 phy 24: Broadcom 3c905C internal PHY, rev. 7
> > > 
> > > It had been working with 2.0F - I just upgraded..
> > 
> > That's interesting -- two otherwise identical cards with
> > different PHY's.  Are those two different ethernet cards,
> > a dual port, or what?  How are they probed in 2.0F?
> 
> There are different manufacturing versions of the 3c905C-TX. The chip is the
> same and vendor/device/rev are identical, but the board layout is
> different and different PHY are used in the chip.
> I can also say that the PXE ROM is different, some of them are buggy (don't
> handle next-server right)

Have you any thoughts on the panic in the first message of this thread?

Cheers,

Patrick