intel etherpro 100 problems

[alvin at Mail.Linux-Consulting.com]

hi

i suspect that if you are using the onboard NICs on the
various motherboards w/ intel i810 or i815 motherboards
,,, than you need to upgrade your eepro100.c driver
 for linux-2.2.16 thru *.19
	linux-2.4.x seems to be little better...

other simple test is to make your eepro100 be a module
and see if the "no resources" problems go away
	using "modules" fixed all of our obvious eepro100 problems

have fun
alvin
http://wwww.Linux-1U.net ... 500Gb 1u Raid5 ...



On Fri, 4 May 2001, zolia wrote:

> Hi, 
> 
> Sometimes we have the same problems. Systems doesn't start reporting no tx
> rx buffers. This i spotted about the year before, but didn't find any
> solution. First i thought that eepro100 had some kind of conflicts with
> mainboards (we used via chipset), but later the same things happened with
> intel MB integraded eepro. 
> 
> Does any one knows what is the problem?
> 
> ====================================================================
> Antanas Masevicius             Kaunas University of Technology
> Studentu 48a-101               Computer Center
> LT-3028 Kaunas                 LITNET NOC UNIX Systems Administrator
> Lithuania                      E-mail: zolia at sc.ktu.lt
> 
> On Fri, 4 May 2001, Kim Branson wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Hi List,
> > 
> > I've been having some problems with intel etherpro 100 cards on my
> > cluster. 
> > 
> > the nodes are 1ghz athlons 64meg pc133 on a asus a7pro mb. ibm 10.2 gig
> > drives
> > 
> > after a reboot of the nodes, and sometimes during a run the card reports
> > no rx buffers or resources.
> > 
> > from the logs
> > 
> > eepro100.c:v1.09j-t 9/29/99 Donald Becker
> > http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/eepro100.html
> > May  3 19:47:50 node04 kernel: eepro100.c: $Revision: 1.20.2.10 $
> > 2000/05/31 Modified by Andrey V. Savochkin <saw at saw.sw.com.sg> and others
> > May  3 19:47:50 node04 kernel: eth0: Intel PCI EtherExpress Pro100 82557,
> > 00:02:B3:0B:A7:4A, I/O at 0xa400, IRQ 11.
> > 
> > May  3 19:48:12 node04 kernel: eth0: card reports no RX buffers.
> > May  3 19:48:12 node04 kernel: eth0: card reports no resources.
> > 
> > Has anyone else seen this problem or can explain to me what might be going
> > on. after rebooting this node by hand it came up ok. This problem occoured
> > on 7/64 nodes. 
> > 
> > kim
> > ______________________________________________________________________ 
> > 
> > Mr Kim Branson
> > Phd Student
> > Structural Biology
> > Walter and Eliza Hall Institute
> > Royal Parade, Parkville, Melbourne, Victoria
> > Ph 61 03 9662 7136
> > Email kbranson at wehi.edu.au
> > Email kim.branson at hsn.csiro.au
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