[eepro100] Re: Driver Problem with Compaq DL 360

Rief, Jacob Jacob.Rief@TIScover.com
Fri, 12 Jan 2001 16:00:31 +0100


Hi,

> and in about 50%(!) of initialization one of the two cards reports: 
> ethx: card reports no RX buffers 
> ethx: eepro100: cmd_wait for(0xfffffff0) timedout with(0xfffffff0)! 
> The last one repeats until a network restart. 
> I've also seen messages with values (0xffffff80) and (0x70). But most time
it is (0xfffffff0). 


I had exactly the same problem on a Compaq DL360
with RedHat-7.0 and Linux-2.2.18.

Downgrading drivers/net/eepro100.c from Linux-2.2.18 to
eepro100.c from Linux-2.2.17 was my solution.

Jacob