Subject: Re: Linux - 3Com 3CR990 driver
From: David Dillow <dave@thedillows.org>
To: smiler@lanil.mine.nu
Cc: yogesh@unipune.ernet.in, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
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3cr990 series is supported in 2.4.21+, and 2.5.something+

It still does not do crypto offload - new job, little time, blah blah
blah.. :(

On Sat, 2003-07-05 at 06:50, Christian Axelsson wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-07-03 at 12:04, Yogesh Subhash Talekar wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > Firstly sorry for such an unexpected distrurbance. But I saw your posts on
> > Linux kernel lists which raised my hopes and hence this mail.
> > 
> > We at University of Pune, India run the campus network whose backbone runs
> > on OFC. We decided to upgrade it to 100 mbps from 10mbps and bought 3COM
> > 3CR990 cards to install them in 20 Linux servers we have.
> > 
> > Now that has landed us in big trouble. The driver which 3COM provided on
> > CD-ROMs is not working. Also the one we downloaded from 3COM's website is
> > also not working.
> > 
> > Whenever we make the cards up and try to check simple FTP speeds from one
> > machine to other it comes to about 800 kbps! We changed the CISCO-2990
> > fiber switch to make sure that it is not because of the faulty switch..
> > but in vein.
> > 
> > We also tried 2.5.X but it fails to compile.
> > 
> > Does anyone of you has a solution / advice/ code?
> > 
> > Please help.....
> > 
> > --yogesh talekar
> 
> Im also very intressed in this since I have a few off these (that works
> like a charm under w2k btw).
> Im CC:ing the LKML, maybe someone has more answers.
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