Re: NIC on Intel STL2 - bad work with eepro100 & e100

[Kallol Biswas <kallol@efi.com>]

I believe the problem is due to the sleep mode bit,
I  think the errata of Intel-STL2 documents it. We had a similar problem with our

STL2 based board,
clearing the sleep mode fixed it.

Paul P Komkoff Jr wrote:

> Replying to Andrey Nekrasov:
> >                       Intel Server Board STL2.
> >       Network: onboard NIC "Intel(R) 82559 single chip PCI LAN controller"
>
> I have almost the same behavior here except that eepro100 works
> without freezes. Maybe spylog servers' NIC load is much more higher
> than mine :)
>
> Intel support guys advised me to test both versions of e100 driver.
>
> ftp://aiedownload.intel.com/df-support/2896/eng/e100-2.1.15.tar.gz
> ftp://aiedownload.intel.com/df-support/2896/eng/e100-1.8.38.tar.gz
>
> Unfortunately, I haven't tested it yet. My investigation shows that
> the following fragment of e100_main.c code fails:
>
> <code from="e100_hw_init">
>      if (!e100_wait_exec_cmplx(bdp, 0, SCB_RUC_LOAD_BASE))
>             return false;
> </code>
>
> we returning false here.
>
> And I am stalled for now till the end of next week until the ACM ICPC
> Qfinal is over :(
>
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