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In article <5b5hmm$ch2@euas20.eua.ericsson.se>,
Martin Wahlstr�m <etxmwah@eua.ericsson.se> wrote:
>In article <5b5gmh$788@catapult.gatech.edu>, gt4625b@acmey.gatech.edu (Sean Xie) writes:
>>I have the following network card, and can't get it to work with slackware 3.1
>>(kernel 2.0.0), does this version of linux support my card?
>>(Network-howto has a list of supported 3com cards, and I didn't see 3c900).
>>
>>     3Com PCI EnterLink XL 3C900-TPO
>>
>>Thanks
>>
>>Sean Xie
>
>Let's see if this helps:
>
>   http://cesdis1.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/

There are two drivers.  One is a souped-up version of the 3c59x driver
(oddly enough, called 3c59x.c) and the other is a native driver for the
3c900 series called boomerang.c.  Boomerang.c is still in early alpha
development, and it's crashed/locked up my ethernet card three different
times.  The 3c59x.c is okay, but I get LOTS of errors in ifconfig.
Performance-wise, the 3c900 screams with the boomerang.c driver, but
it's only mediocre-to-good with the 3c59x driver.  The 3c59x
acknowledges that it's being run on a 3c900, but it subsequently
emulates a 3c59x.

Ping requests die at request #178 with either driver.

Boomerang requires a 2.x kernel; there are 3c59x versions for 2.x and
1.3.  The 3c900 only came out in August or September, so I doubt that
LDP (Linux Documentation Project) has had time to update their FAQs.
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