Problem with eepro100 and supermicro motherboard PIIIDM6

[James Forbes]

Hi

We have a SuperMicro PIIIDM6 motherboard which has an
Intel EtherExpress Pro100 onboard.  We have an intermittent
problem which will either lock the machine up, or the following
error messages are reported from eepro100.c.

eth0: card reports no resources
eth0: card reports no RX buffers

The lock up and the errors have occured during light and heavy
network traffic.  Has anyone had any experience with this 
motherboard and/or had similar problems ?

The eepro100 driver is that which is shipped with RedHat 6.2 
kernel version 2.2.14-5.0.

What maybe a related problem is the checksum errors reported
when the module is loaded.  The following is what it reports in
the syslog.

Apr 27 16:33:24 prospero kernel: eepro100.c:v1.09j-t 9/29/99 Donald Becker
http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/eepro100.html 
Apr 27 16:33:24 prospero kernel: eepro100.c: $Revision: 1.18 $ 1999/12/29
Modified by Andrey V. Savochkin <saw@msu.ru> 
Apr 27 16:33:24 prospero kernel: eth0: Invalid EEPROM checksum 0x4ac2, check
settings before activating this device! 
Apr 27 16:33:24 prospero kernel: eth0: OEM i82557/i82558 10/100 Ethernet at
0xfc8bf000, 00:30:48:10:08:90, IRQ 16. 
Apr 27 16:33:24 prospero kernel:   Receiver lock-up bug exists -- enabling
work-around. 
Apr 27 16:33:24 prospero kernel:   Board assembly 000d80-134, Physical
connectors present: 
Apr 27 16:33:24 prospero kernel:   Primary interface chip i82553-A/B PHY #2. 
Apr 27 16:33:24 prospero kernel:   General self-test: passed. 
Apr 27 16:33:24 prospero kernel:   Serial sub-system self-test: passed. 
Apr 27 16:33:24 prospero kernel:   Internal registers self-test: passed. 
Apr 27 16:33:24 prospero kernel:   ROM checksum self-test: passed (0x04f4518b).
Apr 27 16:33:24 prospero kernel:  Receiver lock-up workaround activated. 


Any help would be gratefully received.  Otherwise we'll probably
just disable the onboard network card and install another.

thanks
James
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