Date: Sun, 17 May 1998 23:16:25 +0200 From: Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no> To: Evren Yurtesen <yurtesen@ispro.net.tr> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 3C905 Message-ID: <19980517231625.48661@follo.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.96.980518005205.21754D-100000@avrasya.ispro.net.tr>; from Evren Yurtesen on Mon, May 18, 1998 at 01:01:28AM %2B0300 References: <19980517224620.37900@follo.net> <Pine.LNX.3.96.980518005205.21754D-100000@avrasya.ispro.net.tr>
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On Mon, May 18, 1998 at 01:01:28AM +0300, Evren Yurtesen wrote: > well on the ethernet card there writes 3c905-tx > I guess it is not 3c905b... > also when I use the same card in a new installation session it works... > and also the utility of the ethernet card says that it works > > when I try to look at man vx it says > > The vx driver provides support for the 3Com 3c590 and 3c595 EtherLink III > and Fast EtherLink III PCI Ethernet cards in 10 Mbps mode. The > medium selection can be influenced by the following link flags to the > ifconfig(8) command: > > well do this means that I can't use that ethernet card at 100 Mbps? No, but the 905 is a _very_ bad choice for 100MBit under FreeBSD. It gives bad performance (due to a polling driver; a new driver is supposedly under development, but don't hold your breath), has horrible interrupt-load, and is expensive. My advice: Get an Intel EtherExpress instead. > at startup it says > > vx0 <3COM 3C905 Fast Etherlink XL PCI> rev 0 int a irq 11 on pci0:11:0 > mii[*mii*]: disable 'auto select' with DOS util! address 00:60:08:50:ae:5e > > but I guess this does not mean that it is not working... That message is bogus. I've been planning to change it to 'autoselect ignored!' for a long time. > and the setup utility of the ethernet card does not let me change anything > including the irq and the address... It should let you change it to non-autoselect and set which port it should run - do you really want it to run on the mii port? Eivind. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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