Re: [Leaf-user] Looking for alternate 3c59x module for 3c905c

[George M. <wol...@sh...>]

On Fri, 15 Mar 2002, Simon Bolduc wrote:

> I've found that using older NICs is generally your best bet if using a
> consumer DSL or Cable connection.  You'll probably never saturate the 10
> Mb/s offered by them and you can avoid all the potential Driver related
> pitfalls (different chipset revisions etc).  At home I'm using 2 old 10 Mb
> NICs that have ports for AUX, BNC, and Cat 5 - and they work wonderfully.
> Unfortunately I've never seen a version of the 3c905 driver from 3com that
> was compiled for LEAF/LRP...

Bering most likely includes it, as I'm posting this from my Windows box to
my server through a 905C. Whether the CX is enough functionally different
that the 2.4 Series 3c59x won't work either is another matter. What I DO
know is that prior to 2.4.1, none of the 3c905C cards were supported by
the 3c59x, and I almost had a conniption fit when I realized that the new
card I had with my brand new system didn't want to run under Linux.

I thought that the 3c59x module was backported from 2.4.x to 2.2.19 and
later, but I can't say for sure.

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George Metz
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