Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 28 Dec 2001 13:51:57 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 28 Dec 2001 13:51:48 -0500 Received: from brick.homesquared.com ([216.177.65.65]:11740 "EHLO brick.homesquared.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 28 Dec 2001 13:51:41 -0500 Message-ID: <00cd01c18fd0$ced54f20$d90aa8c0@bridge> From: "Jeremy Jackson" To: "Ben Greear" , "Tim Hockin" Cc: "Linux Kernel Mailing List" , , , In-Reply-To: <3C0D54DF.4E897B70@sun.com> <3C269FF1.5040402@candelatech.com> Subject: Re: [PATCH] eepro100 - need testers Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2001 10:52:28 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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" To: "Tim Hockin" Cc: "Linux Kernel Mailing List" ; ; ; 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 > President of Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com > ScryMUD: http://scry.wanfear.com http://scry.wanfear.com/~greear > > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/