Subject: Re: 3com 3c905B-tx strange behaviour
To: None <port-i386@netbsd.org>
From: Erich Enke <Erich.T.Enke@wheaton.edu>
List: port-i386
Date: 08/27/1999 14:12:05
> From kre@munnari.OZ.AU Fri Aug 27 14:06:43 CDT 1999
>
> I don't think I was even able to get windows to work (with the driver
> that accompanied the card) in autoselect mode, though with some
> convincing using the 3com software I was able to force it into hdx
> 10Mbit mode (to suit the net available to be connected to), after which
> under winsdows it worked fine. That's the state the one in the i386
> will have been left in. The one I have in the alpha has never been near
> a windows system (or not while in my posession). It shold be in its
> default state.
FWIW, we've had problems with this card in Windows also. I wonder if it's
just a bad card. Our fix was to download new drivers from the 3com site.
Can't do that with un*x though.
- Erich