RedHat 4.2 + 3Com 900 Boomerang: riesenie

[Jaroslav Brandis]

Ja mam taku istu kartu teda 3c900 Combo, nie vyslovene boomerang ale pouzil
som pri instalacii driver na vortex. skus to .

> Zdravim!
> 
> Pred nejakym casom som prosil v tejto konferencii o rady ohladne niektorych
> problemov, na ktore som narazil po instalacii RH 4.2. Odpovedal mi pan
> Kasprzak a naviedol ma spravnym smerom. S pomocou dalsich ludi som prave
> vyriesil problem so sietovou kartou. Takze aby ostatni, ktori by mohli mat
> podobny problem, pisem, ako sa to podarilo:
> 
> 
> > : v hlaskach kernelu mam o sietovej karte:
> > [...]
> > : kernel: Warning : Unknown PCI device (10b7:9001).  Please read include/linux/pci.h 
> > : kernel: 3c900.c:v0.40 4/16/97 becker na cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov
> > : kernel: loading device 'eth0'...
> > : kernel: eth0: 3Com 3c900 Boomerang 10Mbps/Combo at 0x6100, 00:60:97:a4:31:04,
> > :  IRQ 11
> > : kernel:   8K word-wide RAM 3:5 Rx:Tx split, 10base2 interface.
> > : kernel:   Rx Pacing bug exists, disabling bus-master receives.
> > : kernel: eth0: Overriding PCI latency timer (CFLT) setting of 32, new value is
> > :  248.
> > : 
> > : Predpokladam, ze prva hlaska je nedolezita, matie ma ten "pacing bug".
> 
> Novy driver na kartu uz o pacing bug-u nepise ziadnu hlasku...
> 
> > 	To je asi chyba/nestandardnost vasi karty. Mozna pomuze novejsi
> > driver (v0.42). 3c59x a 3c90x jsou zname tim, ze vyrobce v ruznych verzich
> > menil urcite casovaci parametry, takze mate-li dve 3c90x s ruznym datem
> > vyroby, mohou se chovat o dost jinak.
> 
> > : 2; 
> > : najviac ma vsak trapi, ze "tvrdne" ftp a irc ale len na niektore servery.
> > : Pri ftp su to servery s daemonmi (hlavne) wu-2.4.2-academ[BETA-*] napr.
> > : ftp.muni.cz : chvilu to ide (prihlasim sa, zmenim adresar), ale ako zacnem
> > : nieco stahovat alebo dam vypis adresara, tak sa neprenesie ani byte. :-(
> > : Stretol sa niekto s niecim podobnym? Cim to moze byt?
> 
> > 	Zkuste pouzit driver v0.42 pro sitovou kartu. Ale netusim,
> > jestli to s vyse uvedenym ma neco spolecneho. Anebo muzete zkusit kvalitu
> > hardwaru: Zkuste treba pres vikend spustit 100x v cyklu prikaz
> > MAKE='make -j 4' make -j 4 clean zImage (v /usr/src/linux, pochopitelne).
> > Spadne-li nekdy kompilace na gcc internal error, mate chybny hardware.
> 
> Naozaj pomohol novy driver ale nie verzia v0.42 ale v0.43, ktora "has been
> just released".
> -------------------------------
> Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
> 
> > > When I try to do ftp transfers from some servers (mainly with
> > > wu-2.4.2-academ[BETA-*] daemons; for example "ftp.muni.cz") it works fine
> > > for a while, however, when I try to "get" larger files or to list the content
> > > of a "big directory" nothing happens. I can use to Ctrl-C (inside ftp) and
> 
> > Known problem. Nothing on the console?
> 
> > 0.42 is broken. It seems 0.43 was just released (never tried it, it's on 
> > <http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/vortex.html>). UNOFFICIAL 
> > 0.42o made a serious improvment to me. You can find it at 
> > <http://www.desy.de/~sieversm/boomerang.html>.
> 
> -------------------------------
> 
> Este upozornujem, ze som upgrade-ol na kernel-source-2.0.30-3;
> /usr/src/linux/drivers/net/3c59x.c prepisal spominanym najnovsim zdrojakom
> v0.43; prekompiloval kernel a PRACUJE TO! Ziadne ftp ani IRC servery uz
> "netvrdnu".
> 
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