On Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 02:34:17PM -0600, Munir Nassar wrote: > On Tue, 26 Mar 2002, Brian wrote: > > Ahhhhhhh!!! I run far and fast from those horrid 3Coms. Netgear makes a > > good solid card, I've been messing with the newer Intel EEPro100 VE > > chipset and it seems to be pretty solid as well. Avoid 3coms like the > > plague. > > i beg to differ, i have had only the best from 3com cards. though i would > like to know what kind of peoblems you have had... My bad 3com (IIRC) 3c905b experience: The damn thing refused to talk to my 10/100 switch (I don't recall the switch's mfg and it's at home, I'm not) using the stock Linux drivers and, after searching high and low, I could only turn up 905c drivers from 3com - not that it would've helped anyhow, because ISTR that it didn't work with the Windows drivers either. The only way I could get it to work was to plug the 3c905b into a 10Mbps hub and uplink the hub into the 10/100 switch. 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. 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. -- When we reduce our own liberties to stop terrorism, the terrorists have already won. - reverius Innocence is no protection when governments go bad. - Tom Swiss