[eepro100-bug] Transmit timed out problems [Was: Hi.]

[Durval Menezes]

Hello Arjuna,

On Sat, Apr 06, 2002 at 08:35:11AM +0200, Arjuna Scagnetto wrote:
> I've read about your problem with eepro100 (...Transmit timed out...),i've 
> the same problem too on a Acer Laptop.
> Have you found a solution?

More or less. The problem apparently does not manifest itself when using
kernel 2.2.20 and its built-in eepro100 driver (which announces itself to
be "v1.09t 9/29/99".

On our production machines (which still run "good-olde" kernel 2.0.39)
we are using the 1.05 version of the driver, which loses promiscuous
mode now and then, but works perfectly under heavy load, without the 
"Transmit timed out" problem mentioned above. The losing of promiscuous
mode is only important if you run long, unassisted network monitoring
tasks (which we do, on those production machines) and we have found out
that it can be easily worked around, just by starting and stopping a 
"tcpdump" on the background (which can be done easily via a script and/or
an entry in the crontab).

> Bye
> Thankyou for answering

Sorry for the long delay, I've just seen your email today. Please let 
me know if I can be of any further help.

Too bad other people on the list (specially the good folks at Scyld)
have not gotten around to answering my original email... I requested
more information there (like a CVS or RCS or even a plain tar archive
of intermediate versions of the driver) that would really have helped
us in solving the problem instead of resorting to workarounds...

Best Regards,
-- 
   Durval Menezes (scyld AT tmp DOT com DOT br, http://www.tmp.com.br/)