[eepro100] eepro100 driver frequently dying in Linux 2.4.4

[Kallol Biswas]

Donald,
     They will eventually accept, they never denied any problem
I found, but they did not come forward with existing problems.

I never encountered command skipping problem, my programming model is
a little different, the TX and non TX command are not mixed in the
same ring.

Kallol

> 
> On Mon, 23 Jul 2001, Kallol Biswas wrote:
> 
> >    "Thanks" me too:)
> 
> Yup.
> 
> > I am having hard time to workaround other two problems with 82559
> > card, I hope intel will come up with solutions again.
> 
> Does Intel admit the problems? 
> 
> > Cards eats outgoing packets and does not generate interrupt
> > for incoming packets:
> ...
> > packet. However with kernel debugger I have seen that the card posts 
> > transmit complete status and interrupt. No error counter is update.
> > That means the card really devours the frames. This problem also happens
> > only with high workload.
> ...
> > 2) 
> > On a highly stressed machine repeated call to selftest may cause it
> > to fail.
> > ... This also happens with high network 
> > load.
> 
> The '559 seems to have a whole set of problems related to high PCI or
> network loads.  Once they occur, they quick recur.  My interpretation is
> that the chip seems to corrupt its firmware or state machines.
> 
> Is there any Intel report on the long-standing problem of the command
> unit "skipping" -- not marking commands as having completed?
> 
> 
> 
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