lock-up problems with eepro100 1.06

[Scott Dudley]

In a message of 13 Apr 199, Edwin Olson  wrote:

>I'm confused by your v1.06; I'm not aware of a version 1.06. The
latest,
>dated 10/16/98, is v1.05. Did you download your source from Becker's
site?
>Strange that it reports itself as v1.06, with that date. Perhaps you
have an
>unofficial version that has been modified in some detrimental way. I am

>using v1.05 with success (and multicast_filter_limit=3).

Actually, I am using the driver that came with the Linux 2.2.5 kernel
distribution.  It reports itself as:

static const char *version = "eepro100.c:v1.06 10/16/98 Donald Becker
http://ce$

Just for fun, I tried reverting to the 1.05 that is on Donald's web
page.  Now it no longer crashes when I try to run ifconfig (!), but
instead it reports the following error and does nothing:

SIOCSIFFLAGS: Try again

I am no kernel hacker, but searching around the drivers/net directory
makes it look like this has something to do with multicasting.  I am
using this command:

/sbin/ifconfig eth0 10.1.4.6  broadcast 10.1.7.255 netmask 255.255.252.0

It still complains with the same error message even if I configure only
the address and omit the netmask and broadcast information.  I even
tried rebuilding the kernel with gcc 2.7.2, but that didn't solve my
problem either.

Any ideas?

With regards,
Scott Dudley