From: Juan Quintela <quintela@mandrakesoft.com>
To: Thomas Backlund <tmb@iki.fi>
Cc: "J.A. Magallon" <jamagallon@able.es>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 3c59x gives HWaddr FF:FF:...
Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2003 04:21:06 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <86y92xh9wt.fsf@trasno.mitica> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0d0001c2f616$6a678dc0$9b1810ac@xpgf4> (Thomas Backlund's message of "Sat, 29 Mar 2003 19:12:25 +0200")
>>>>> "thomas" == Thomas Backlund <tmb@iki.fi> writes:
thomas> ----- Original Message -----
thomas> From: "J.A. Magallon" <jamagallon@able.es>
thomas> |
thomas> | So, 3 options:
thomas> | - the 905C goes to trashcan
thomas> | - the driver fails to initialize something (I dont trust this...)
thomas> | - winblows messed the card eeprom...any way to tidy it up again ?
thomas> |
thomas> | Thanks everybody...
thomas> |
thomas> | --
thomas> | J.A. Magallon <jamagallon@able.es> \ Software is
thomas> like sex:
thomas> | werewolf.able.es \ It's better when
thomas> it's free
thomas> | Mandrake Linux release 9.1 (Bamboo) for i586
thomas> | Linux 2.4.21-pre6-jam1 (gcc 3.2.2 (Mandrake Linux 9.1 3.2.2-3mdk))
thomas> Since you have MDK 9.1, could you try the 3rdparty/3c90x module from
thomas> mdk kernel-source and see if it works...
thomas> It is 3Com's own driver... that is supposed to work with that card...
thomas> If it won't work, maybe it's the card that is broken... messed up...
thomas> If it works, the bug is in the 3c59x module...
In my experience, that bug is related with acpi. In a kernel compiled
without acpi, the card works perfectly, in a kernel compiled with acpi
it depend on the phase of the moon and similar things :(
The driver for some reason sets too much 1. I have one of my machines
conected using dhcp, and it almost never got the right address the
first boot (a reset _usually_ fix the problem, not always). Some
times, only some bits are set in the mac address, I think that a
couple of times, I have got a MAC with all FF in the address.
Worse still is the fact, that sometimes it is not the MAC address what
is afected, it is also the vendor ip/product id, that makes that the
driver is not recognized by the driver module.
I have tried both, the standard driver and the 3com "official" driver,
both have that problem. I already informend Andrew Grover about the
problem, but he is not sure what is happening.
Later, Juan "wondering what sane network card's are still on the market".
--
In theory, practice and theory are the same, but in practice they
are different -- Larry McVoy
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-03-30 2:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-03-28 14:51 3c59x gives HWaddr FF:FF: J.A. Magallon
2003-03-28 15:57 ` Eric Weigle
2003-03-28 20:48 ` Andrew Morton
2003-03-28 23:05 ` J.A. Magallon
2003-03-28 23:16 ` Andrew Morton
2003-03-29 0:46 ` J.A. Magallon
2003-03-29 17:12 ` Thomas Backlund
2003-03-29 19:45 ` Felipe Alfaro Solana
2003-03-30 2:21 ` Juan Quintela [this message]
2003-03-30 10:19 ` Felipe Alfaro Solana
2003-03-30 10:53 ` Thomas Backlund
2003-03-30 11:16 ` Felipe Alfaro Solana
2003-03-31 19:09 ` Bas Vermeulen
2003-03-29 0:29 ` Felipe Alfaro Solana
2003-03-29 0:44 ` Andrew Morton
2003-03-29 1:23 ` Felipe Alfaro Solana
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2003-03-28 16:13 Alex Davis
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