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SubjectRe: SMC EtherPower II card
> 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.

Tim Fletcher .~.
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