Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 3 Sep 2001 13:04:04 +0200 | From | Ingo Rohloff <> | Subject | epic100.c, SMC EtherPower II, SMC83c170/175 "EPIC" |
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Hello,
I have got a "[SMC] 83C170QF" adaptor in my computer and I wasn't able to use the driver which is in linux-2.4.9.
The sympotms are lot's of messages of this in /var/log/messages: "kernel: eth0: Too much work at interrupt, IntrStatus=0x008d0004"
This seems to be a known problem; at least I found other people complaining about the same message in their kernel logs. The problem has different severity for different people. I wasn't able to get the card working at all (basically the computer hung, while trying to mount several NFS directories).
After searching the web for further information I was able to obtain a patched version, which was modified Heiko Boch. It seems this version is an older linux-2.4.x driver with some additional patches.
This version works without glitches on my system with a vanilla linux-2.4.9 kernel.
The homepage of Heiko Boch doesn't seem to exist anymore, so for all people who use this card and have the above problem, I put his modified version of epic100.c on my home page at www.in.tum.de/~rohloff (look for epic100.c).
I hope that after some testing someone can have a look over this version, who really can tell what the essential differences compared to the version in linux-2.4.9 are.
Perhaps this will lead to a working linux-2.4.xx version in the future.
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