Re: Patch that fixes 3c59x.c to support 3com 3c905CX cards

[Harley D. Eades]

>>         I have been trying to narrow down a bug in the file 
>> gnumach/linux/src/drivers/net/3c59x.c which caused my NIC
>> to act kinda weird.  The NIC would not accept and traffic
>> off the network but it would send it.  The problem was
>> the driver was sending an RxRest to the NIC to often, this
> is the cause of the NIC engineer using just some random
>> interval.  That patch updates the wait to be a bit longer.

>Where did you get the information for these changes from?  Was this
>from an updated Linux driver?  If yes, which version?

>Regards,
> Marcus and Thomas

I got the information from the 3com manual and talking to the some
people who wrote the 3c59x Linux driver http://www.scyld.com/pipermail/vortex/

Thanks
Harley