Re: Intel EEPro 100 with kernel drivers

["Henning P. Schmiedehausen" <mailgate@hometree.net>]

Hasch@t-online.de (Juergen Hasch) writes:

>> I've now tried the Intel driver, no help, still get the NFS timeouts (the
>> intel driver doesn't output anything to dmesg, so it's no way of telling if
>> the same things occur as in the eepro100 stock-kernel driver).

>I had some trouble with an Intel STL 2 board and the onboard EEPRO100.
>Samba worked OK but it always got stuck on NFS transfers.

A datapoint that might be interesting:

I run four of these buggers with eepros as Internet-Interfaces for
heavy traffic (30-80 MBit sustained 24/7) under 2.2.19. Not a single
glitch on each of these boxes. The machines have two PIII/1GHz each
and a (custom built) SMP kernel based off RH 2.2.19-6.2.7

boot message:

eepro100.c:v1.09j-t 9/29/99 Donald Becker http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/eepro100.html
eepro100.c: $Revision: 1.20.2.10 $ 2000/05/31 Modified by Andrey V. Savochkin <saw@saw.sw.com.sg> and others
eepro100.c: VA Linux custom, Dragan Stancevic <visitor@valinux.com> 2000/11/15
eth0: Intel PCI EtherExpress Pro100 82557, 00:D0:B7:A8:67:EC, I/O at 0x2c00, IRQ 21.
  Board assembly 000000-000, Physical connectors present: RJ45
  Primary interface chip i82555 PHY #1.
  General self-test: passed.
  Serial sub-system self-test: passed.
  Internal registers self-test: passed.
  ROM checksum self-test: passed (0x04f4518b).

So there may be a change between 2.2 and 2.4 that triggers the problems.

	Regards
		Henning
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