Re: 2.2.19: eepro100 and cmd_wait issues

[Ken Brownfield <brownfld@irridia.com>]

Or you could keep your hardware and try the Intel driver, which seems to 
work fine.  It only works as a module, though.  This might also help 
narrow the issue to a driver vs. card vs. mobo/BIOS/IRQ/APIC/etc issue.

Personally, I've found the EtherExpress hardware and eepro100 driver to 
be flawless in production on both single and dual units, card and 
built-in.  It's the first choice for Linux now that Tulip has somewhat 
faded from view, AFAIC.  I have heard mentioned on this list that the 
Intel driver is necessary for some (older?) cards, however.

OT: does anyone know what the current state of the Tulip driver is and 
if there is good hardware out there?  SMC left Tulip and went through at 
least two other chipsets, so the only Tulip card I could find as of a 
couple of years ago was Digital's.  But it was astonishingly expensive 
and not clearly supported by the Linux driver.

Thanks,
--
Ken.

On Tuesday, June 12, 2001, at 11:51 AM, Florin Andrei wrote:

> On 12 Jun 2001 13:00:41 -0500, John Madden wrote:
>>
>> kernel: eepro100: cmd_wait for(0x70) timedout with(0x70)!
>> kernel: eepro100: cmd_wait for(0x10) timedout with(0x10)!
>
> I have the same problem, since a long time, with various 2.2 and 2.4
> kernels running on a i815 motherboard, with on-board eepro100 net card.
>
>> The only solution I've found that works is to reboot, and since this is
>
> For me, it's enough to "ifconfig down" then "ifconfig up" the interface.
>
> I will probably buy another network card, since changing the OS is not
> an option, and Linux seems to not like eepro100 that much... :-/
>
> --
> Florin Andrei
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