Re: [PATCH] eepro100 - need testers

["Jeremy Jackson" <jerj@coplanar.net>]

I have a friend who has had headaches with a D815EEA board with a 2nd
eepro100+ nic installed.
He compiled a new kernel and used a driver from intel's website, and it's
all good now.
FYI
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ben Greear" <greearb@candelatech.com>
To: "Tim Hockin" <thockin@sun.com>
Cc: "Linux Kernel Mailing List" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>;
<arjanv@redhat.com>; <saw@sw-soft.com>; <sparker@sparker.net>
Sent: Sunday, December 23, 2001 7:24 PM
Subject: Re: [PATCH] eepro100 - need testers


> I just tried this patch against the 2.4.17 kernel.  I was able to
> completely freeze my D815EEA2 motherboard based computer by trying
> to copy a large directory over NFS.  The machine is connected to a
> 10bt HUB, and this setup has shown lockups before with various
> eepro100 drivers.  The e100 seems to work fine in this setup...
>
> An older eepro driver (the one with RH's 2.4.9-13 kernel) does not
> lock up the machine, but I do see incessant wait-for-cmd-done-timeout
> messages, and the network is basically un-usable.
>
> On other machines, connected to a 100bt-FD switch, the new patch
> seems to work just fine, btw.
>
> The eepro lockup is repeatable, so let me know if there is any
> information I can get for you that will help.
>
> Thanks,
> Ben
>
> Tim Hockin wrote:
>
> > This patch was developed here to resolve a number of eepro100 issues we
> > were seeing. I'd like to get people to try this on their eepro100 chips
and
> > beat on it for a while.
> >
> > volunteers?
>
>
> --
> Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>       <Ben_Greear AT excite.com>
> President of Candela Technologies Inc      http://www.candelatech.com
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