Re: Linux - 3Com 3CR990 driver

From: Christian Axelsson (smiler@lanil.mine.nu)
Date: Sat Jul 05 2003 - 05:50:16 EST


On Thu, 2003-07-03 at 12:04, Yogesh Subhash Talekar wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Firstly sorry for such an unexpected distrurbance. But I saw your posts on
> Linux kernel lists which raised my hopes and hence this mail.
>
> We at University of Pune, India run the campus network whose backbone runs
> on OFC. We decided to upgrade it to 100 mbps from 10mbps and bought 3COM
> 3CR990 cards to install them in 20 Linux servers we have.
>
> Now that has landed us in big trouble. The driver which 3COM provided on
> CD-ROMs is not working. Also the one we downloaded from 3COM's website is
> also not working.
>
> Whenever we make the cards up and try to check simple FTP speeds from one
> machine to other it comes to about 800 kbps! We changed the CISCO-2990
> fiber switch to make sure that it is not because of the faulty switch..
> but in vein.
>
> We also tried 2.5.X but it fails to compile.
>
> Does anyone of you has a solution / advice/ code?
>
> Please help.....
>
> --yogesh talekar

Im also very intressed in this since I have a few off these (that works
like a charm under w2k btw).
Im CC:ing the LKML, maybe someone has more answers.

-- 
Christian Axelsson
smiler@lanil.mine.nu


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