Messages in this thread | | | From | "Jeremy Jackson" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] eepro100 - need testers | Date | Fri, 28 Dec 2001 10:52:28 -0800 |
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I have a friend who has had headaches with a D815EEA board with a 2nd eepro100+ nic installed. He compiled a new kernel and used a driver from intel's website, and it's all good now. FYI ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ben Greear" <greearb@candelatech.com> To: "Tim Hockin" <thockin@sun.com> Cc: "Linux Kernel Mailing List" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>; <arjanv@redhat.com>; <saw@sw-soft.com>; <sparker@sparker.net> Sent: Sunday, December 23, 2001 7:24 PM Subject: Re: [PATCH] eepro100 - need testers
> I just tried this patch against the 2.4.17 kernel. I was able to > completely freeze my D815EEA2 motherboard based computer by trying > to copy a large directory over NFS. The machine is connected to a > 10bt HUB, and this setup has shown lockups before with various > eepro100 drivers. The e100 seems to work fine in this setup... > > An older eepro driver (the one with RH's 2.4.9-13 kernel) does not > lock up the machine, but I do see incessant wait-for-cmd-done-timeout > messages, and the network is basically un-usable. > > On other machines, connected to a 100bt-FD switch, the new patch > seems to work just fine, btw. > > The eepro lockup is repeatable, so let me know if there is any > information I can get for you that will help. > > Thanks, > Ben > > Tim Hockin wrote: > > > This patch was developed here to resolve a number of eepro100 issues we > > were seeing. I'd like to get people to try this on their eepro100 chips and > > beat on it for a while. > > > > volunteers? > > > -- > Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com> <Ben_Greear AT excite.com> > President of Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com > ScryMUD: http://scry.wanfear.com http://scry.wanfear.com/~greear > > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ >
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