[WBEL-users] reccomended bus based ethernet card

[Michael Squires]

I'm running a 3C509C in a Dell GX110 right now, no problems, but I don't
know why your system would be different.

I am not a fan of the 3C509/59X series.  I currently use a lot of Intel
Pro100B and Pro100+ cards, but I have no experience with these under
LINUX (most of my systems are FreeBSD or WinXP Pro).

I have had problems with sharing interrupts on one home system (under
both Win XP Pro and FreeBSD).  I eventually juggled cards so that the
ethernet card (Intel Pro100+) was not on a shared interrupt and the
problem went away.

>From "dmesg" running WBEL:

3c59x: Donald Becker and others. www.scyld.com/network/vortex.html
See Documentation/networking/vortex.txt
01:0c.0: 3Com PCI 3c905C Tornado at 0xec00. Vers LK1.1.18-ac
 00:b0:d0:cc:9a:0e, IRQ 5
  product code 0000 rev 00.14 date 07-04-00
  Internal config register is 1800000, transceivers 0xa.
  8K byte-wide RAM 5:3 Rx:Tx split, autoselect/Autonegotiate interface.
  MII transceiver found at address 24, status 782d.
  Enabling bus-master transmits and whole-frame receives.
01:0c.0: scatter/gather enabled. h/w checksums enabled
divert: allocating divert_blk for eth0
divert: freeing divert_blk for eth0

Michael Squires