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3c905CX-TX-NM, 3c980B-TX

Post by Jim Stac » Wed, 19 Feb 2003 00:45:46



Does anybody know if FreeBSD 4.7 Release has drivers for the 3com nic cards
3c905CX-TX-NM or 3c980B-TX?

The device comes up as faith0 <Unknown Ethernet Interface> in sysinstall.  I
can configure it and it says the nic card is up, but when I ping it I only
get the first line and it doesn't output anything else and seems to hang.
I'm not sure if this is because the wrong driver is being used for the card
or if there are other hardware conficts causing the card to not respond.

Thanks in advanced,
Jim.

 
 
 
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3c905CX-TX-NM, 3c980B-TX

Post by Eric Masso » Wed, 19 Feb 2003 01:22:23


 Jim> Does anybody know if FreeBSD 4.7 Release has drivers for the 3com
 Jim> nic cards 3c905CX-TX-NM or 3c980B-TX?

Should be xl(4) for both cards.

 Jim> The device comes up as faith0 <Unknown Ethernet Interface> in
 Jim> sysinstall.

faith has nothing to do with your nic
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=faith&apropos=0&sektion=0&ma...

If you're not using GENERIC, try kldload if_xl as root and your nic
should be probed.

Eric Masson

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1. 3COM 3C905CX-TX-NM NIC Transmit Error

I noticed my RH 7.3 /var/log/messages has many
Transmit error, Tx status register 82
messages. There is a message telling me to see the vortex driver docs, which
say:

-------------------------------------
Transmit error, Tx status register 82

This is a common error which is almost always caused by another host on
the same network being in full-duplex mode, while this host is in
half-duplex mode.  You need to find that other host and make it run in
half-duplex mode or fix this host to run in full-duplex mode.

As a last resort, you can force the 3c59x driver into full-duplex mode
with

        options 3c59x full_duplex=1

but this has to be viewed as a workaround for broken network gear and
should only really be used for equipment which cannot autonegotiate.
-------------------------------------
Fine. But how do I tell what other machine is in full-duplex mode? There is
another NIC in this machine, could this be the prblem? Any help would be
appreciated

Rich

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