In message <20020624142959.B5856@celos.net>,
Mark White wrote:

>It's 3Com 3c905C-TX network adaptor built onto the MB which is behaving
> badly

I had problems with such a card. It was soldered on the motherboard of
an HP Vectra 800.

Typical crash protocol was supp-ing from the same network to this
machine. Got a dozen of files, then network was stuck. Before that, was
anyway slow. Activating builtin CRC check didn't help at all.

Downing speed to 10 Mb/s helped a little, the card stalled after two
dozens of files ... :-|

Loading exphy or not was ot an issue, neither.

Finally installed an IntelPro 100 (fxp) an now everythings fine.

I can -hardly, its the main Web server- lead a couple of tests, if it
can help, let me know which tests.

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