[eepro100] errors with eepro100 nic

[Donald Becker]

On Thu, 4 Oct 2001, Runs With Scissors wrote:

> I have a Sony Viao FX220 with a built-in NIC that is giving me problems.
> The NIC is an eepro100, and it has very erratic behavior when the laptop
> is running Linux, but does seem fast and reliable under WinME.

Have you tried the driver from
   http://www.scyld.com/network/eepro100.html
or the e100 driver from Intel?

The directions are at
  http://www.scyld.com/network/updates.html

> There were several messages that read
> 	eepro100: wait_for_cmd_done timeout!
> which repeated some number of times, then were followed by
> 	eth0: Transmit timed out: status 0050 0c80 at 4720/4748 command 200c0000

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