Messages in this thread | | | From | "Mroczek, Joseph T" <> | Subject | RE: EEPRO100/S support | Date | Fri, 22 Jun 2001 15:46:34 -0700 |
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>The e100 driver from intel claims to support these cards (the 100 S >desktop adaptor, that is), but in fact the drivers lock up under heavy >UDP load (at least they do for me in 2.2.19). It seems to only be a >problem with these newer cards, the e100 is solid with older cards >(and things like the 100VE which is onboard on many Easterns). > >Intel are working on fixing the lockups, they thought it was related >to the checksum offload though turning that off doesn't prevent the >lockups. Version 1.66 is much more stable than 1.55a (1.55a would >lockup after 60-80M of traffic on these cards), I'm awaiting the next >version to see if they have nailed it. >
A temporary workaround for e100-1.6.6 that works in most cases is to disable the CPUSaver features by using the ucode=0 option.
> >I've no idea if the e100 works on anything other than ia32/ia64.
Yes it does. At this point it should be platform independent, I see all the required changes for both big and little endian support.
~joe [unhandled content-type:application/x-pkcs7-signature]
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