Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 9 Nov 1998 10:46:57 +0000 (GMT) | From | Tim Fletcher <> | Subject | Re: SMC EtherPower II card |
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> Has anyone had problems with the SMC EtherPower II network card under > linux? This card has some significant problems under NetBSD and FreeBSD > which are apparently caused by bugs in the hardware. My card freezes up > every now and then when in 10Mbps mode (with device timeout messages from > the kernel), which can only be fixed by a power cycle. If it works fine > under linux, I'm hoping I'll be able to compare the driver code to the > NetBSD code and possibly fix the problems.
I run an SMC Etherpower II under linux and win95 (linux most of the time) I get a number of weird problems that I _think_ are hardware based. I run the card at 10Mps to a dumb hub using the default drivers from 2.1.125. The problems I get are:
Lots of socket destroy deleyed message (not sure if the is driver/hardware issue or kernel issue)
And if playing quake2 the card resets it's self every 30 seconds or so, this happens under win95 and linux so I think that it is a hardware bug or a driver workaround for a hardware bug.
I think that the driver gets a number of timed out / mangeled packets and conducts a hardware reset (link on hub goes off and on again) to try and fix things. The same effect can be seen under windows. I also have an wd8013 in the machine which I use to play quake2 via so I know that it is not a network / hub problem but an SMC Etherpower II problem.
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