On Wed, Mar 27, 2002 at 08:50:22AM -0600, Dave Sherohman wrote: > My bad 3com (IIRC) 3c905b experience: > > My best guess on why it > didn't work was that the card was insisting on 100t4, while the > switch only knows how to do 100tx, but that's more a shot in the dark > than anything else. Blaming user error on the hardware leads to a lot of poor opinions, next time try using mii-tool/mii-diag, you might also try manually setting your speed/duplex (tried reading the docs lately?) > Then I picked up a batch of 4 EEPro100s off ebay, dropped 'em in, > they worked perfectly as soon as I rebuilt my kernel (modules? we don' > need no steenking modules!) and that 3com card has been gathering > dust ever since. I'll take the 3com off your hands since it's such a crappy card =) As for the EEPro100's, I'm happy with them too, although the only ones I have left are quad and dual port compaq NC3131's (yum) -- Matthew S. Hallacy FUBAR, LART, BOFH Certified http://techmonkeys.org/~poptix GPG public key 0x01938203