[haiku-development] Re: 3com driver issue (Was: Terminal & VIA Rhine)

  • From: "Urias McCullough" <umccullough@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2007 01:19:49 -0800

On Nov 5, 2007 10:09 AM, Urias McCullough <umccullough@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> A quick update - I had time to test the 3com driver on a single card -
> so I chose the 3c905-TX (rev. A) for simplicity.
>
> It loaded and found 1 card (according to the syslog output) - and I
> could see it at /dev/net/3com/0
>
> Unfortunately the netstack driver failed to load, so i was unable to
> run ifconfig. I haven't tracked this down any further - and I realize
> that since I've updated Haiku to the latest rev, I have NOT tried
> networking first on my working rtl8139 before swapping it out for the
> 3com card. I will need to switch back and test that before I file a
> bug.
>
> I'll let you know what I find soon (either tonight or tomorrow). I
> figured I'd mention it just in case it's easy to fix without further
> details.

So, it was apparently something wrong with my haiku install - i wiped
the partition and re-installed fresh (instead of using the usual jam
install-haiku over my existing rev) and it seemed to work after that.

The 3com driver works well! I decided to test a few more cards I had
lying around here and I was able to test the following cards that
worked for the following drivers:

3com
10b7:9050 3Com 3C905-TX (A)
10b7:9055 3Com 3C905B-TX (tried both rev B and D)
10b7:9200 3Com 3C905C-TX

etherpci
10ec:8029 SMC1208T (RTL-8029)

rtl8139 (new)
1186:1300 D-Link DFE-530TX+ Rev.E1 (RTL8139)
1113:1211 Accton Technology Corp SMC2-1211TX

not working
1317:0985 Linksys LNE100TX (ADMTek NC100 Network Everywhere 10/100)

The LNE100TX is a crappy card - I could care less if it ever gets
supported, but if the driver is easy to port, maybe it's worth it. I
suspect there are a lot of these cards floating around out there since
they were a cheap-o off-the-shelf retail-store card for a long time (I
think this one only cost $14-$20 USD five or six years ago)

I have some 3c900 series cards floating around somewhere (10-baseT,
including a few combo cards with 10-base2 and AAUI connectors... I
actually do have the coax and a hub to test that if I want to :)

Somewhere around here is the Netgear FA-311 (DP83815) and I'm certain
I have another NE2k card somewhere as well. Will test when I find
them!

Thanks again for porting those drivers, they appear to work extremely well!

- Urias

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