Messages in this thread | | | From | Stephane Bortzmeyer <> | Subject | Re: 3com 905 driver still missing from 2.0.31 prepatch | Date | Thu, 07 Aug 97 09:30:45 +0200 |
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On Wednesday 6 August 97, at 9 h 56, the keyboard of Chris Evans <chris@ferret.lmh.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
> Some clarification: Those of us who have had dreadful trouble with 3c59x.c > driver are those with the 8k (I think) 3c590 boards, 10Mbits, with
My case :-(
> The alternative is 0.42 which by all accounts sounds like it has the > stability _and_ the bus mastering capabilities..? Something needs to be > done about the 2.0.30 driver, at any rate.
No, 0.42 has still the same bug with Boomerang (3c590) cards (not the other 3com cards) even at 10 Mb/s. See the many messages on the mailing list linux-vortex about that.
I didn't try yet 0.42n or other unofficial patches (which often disable the bus mastering)...
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