On Wed, 27 Mar 2002, Dave Sherohman wrote: > My bad 3com (IIRC) 3c905b experience: > > The damn thing refused to talk to my 10/100 switch (I don't recall > the switch's mfg and it's at home, I'm not) using the stock Linux seems to me like a linkspeed/duplex issue > drivers and, after searching high and low, I could only turn up 905c > drivers from 3com - not that it would've helped anyhow, because ISTR iirc drivers for most 3com nics were in the kernel since at least the 2.0 series, i highly doubt you will find many bugs in these drivers > that it didn't work with the Windows drivers either. The only way I > could get it to work was to plug the 3c905b into a 10Mbps hub and at this point i would say: bad nic > uplink the hub into the 10/100 switch. My best guess on why it > didn't work was that the card was insisting on 100t4, while the > switch only knows how to do 100tx, but that's more a shot in the dark > than anything else. i am not sure on this one... > Then I picked up a batch of 4 EEPro100s off ebay, dropped 'em in, > they worked perfectly as soon as I rebuilt my kernel (modules? we don' > need no steenking modules!) nothing wrong with the eepros, its just that 3com is a known player in the market and intel... well it's intel, i'd rather AMD nics > and that 3com card has been gathering > dust ever since. i'l buy you a beer for it -munir