Messages in this thread |  | | | Subject | Re: Which driver for the 3C940 / 3C2000? | | From | Martin Schlemmer <> | | Date | 22 Jun 2003 13:50:21 +0200 |
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Hi
Karim wrote: > Jurgen Kramer wrote: > > I am a bit confused about which driver a need for my onboard (Asus > > P4C800 mobo) 3Com gigabit Ethernet controller. It should be a 3C940 but > > sometimes it's called 3C2000. I found a driver at the asus site which > > compiles and works with some kernel versions. Is there a proper (open > > source) kernel driver for this chip? It seems that the tg3 driver > > support some type of 3C940 but not mine. > > > > lspci -n gives: > > > > 02:05.0 Class 0200: 10b7:1700 (rev 12) > > > > This chip is also currently not defined in pci_ids.h (2.4 and 2.5) > > I've got a P4C800DX-2.4GH-HT and have run into similar issues. I tried
I have similar setup.
> using the 3C2000 driver shipped by ASUS on their "driver" CD, but that was > a weird experience. The driver built and installed fine with the SMP > kernel shipped with RedHat9. HOWEVER ... I could browse some web sites > and not others (I'm still trying to figure out how this could be ...) > Somehow, I could point konqueror to slashdot.org, kernel.org, motorola.com, > yahoo.com, lwn.net, etc. and see the pages, but I was unable to visit intel.com, > google.com, or amazon.com. I couldn't imagine this being a driver problem, so I > tried all sorts of different things, but still had this weird behavior. Finally, I > decided to put an 8139 with the same config, and that worked right away ... !?! >
Ditto
> During my research about the 3C2000, I discovered that the driver > shipped with the board is actually a variant of the code in > drivers/net/sk98lin, with modified printks to display 3Com text instead of > SysKonnect information: > ...
Yep, its a SysKonnect chip.
> And it goes on for CNET and Linksys. Apparently, all these devices rely > on the same core. However, a trivial adding of the appropriate vendor ID > and device ID to the sk98lin in 2.4.21 resulted in an ooops at load time, > so it isn't as straight forward as I would have liked it to be ... >
Problem is rather that the drivers in the kernel really outdated.
> It'd be nice that the sk98lin driver already in Linux be modified to add > support to the 3C940, albeit without the browsing weirdness ... >
You can find the latest SysKonnect driver here:
http://www.syskonnect.de/syskonnect/support/driver/htm/sk98lin.htm
It is only for 2.2 and 2.4 though.
I have 'ported' the latest version (6.10) and a previous version or two to 2.5, but I had similar issues as you .... I could ping the boxen on my network, but cannot ssh for instance - basically its as if it only do icmp and rarely actually send/receive other data. I have also mailed SysKonnect, but they told me to speak to 3COM :/
Anyhow, if somebody want my efforts in the 2.5 port to get it working, ask. I however do not have time to struggle with it currently.
Regards,
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Martin Schlemmer
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