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I have a 3Com 3c509 card, and the ethernet FAQ says that there is
a TP bug using this particular card.

Does anyone have experience with this card? What does the bug do?
Is it a serious problem?

: I have a 3Com 3c509 card, and the ethernet FAQ says that there is
: a TP bug using this particular card.
:
: Does anyone have experience with this card? What does the bug do?
: Is it a serious problem?

I've got SLS 1.03 with a 99p13 kernel running on a 3c509 Combo card with
the TP port active. No problems so far.

Happy Holidays,
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Mario Camou / EDS Mexico Client-Server Integration Team
From Mexico City, the smog capital of the world
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The problem was with the *alpha* version in pl12 -- the driver didn't set the
ethercard to do link-beat.  Few people ran that version, and the beta
version in pl13 reportedly works fine.  (By most accounts *better* than the
pl14 version :-<).

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:
: >I've got SLS 1.03 with a 99p13 kernel running on a 3c509 Combo card with
: >the TP port active. No problems so far.
:
: The problem was with the *alpha* version in pl12 -- the driver didn't set the
: ethercard to do link-beat.  Few people ran that version, and the beta
: version in pl13 reportedly works fine.  (By most accounts *better* than the
: pl14 version :-<).

I started with the pl12 version and didn't have any problems there
either :)

What are the problems with the pl14 version? I'm thinking of upgrading
my kernel.

BTW, I'm getting the following message when booting, right after
starting routed:

  eth0: Missed interrupt, status 2011  Tx 00 Rx 386f.

Networking works fine after that (X, ftp, NFS, telnet, etc.) , but now that
we're in this thread I started wondering.

Happy Holidays,
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Mario Camou / EDS Mexico Client-Server Integration Team
From Mexico City, the smog capital of the world
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My opinions are only mine, mine, MINE!

: I have a 3Com 3c509 card, and the ethernet FAQ says that there is
: a TP bug using this particular card.

: Does anyone have experience with this card? What does the bug do?
: Is it a serious problem?

Hello,
I really don't know, what a 'TP-bug' is, but I saw a 3c509 - Card running
with Patch Level 13. There were a few Problems with timeouts, most of them
during rcp with large files. The System (installed at one of our Clients)
runs now for several weeks without any (other) Problems.

I've updated my own System to PL14 and found a new version of the 3c509-
Driver. I guess, it will fix the Timeout - Problems, though I couldn't try
yet.

I hope, this information helps you.

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Oliver Wurm

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