Er, from what perspective? -- Re: eepro 100 falling asleep?

[Patrick Wagstrom]

I doubht it's a power management issue.  The problem appears in several
our systems.   Two of them are VA servers with no sort of power
management, and it appears in two dell workstations.  The kernels in
these systems vary quite a bit.  From the default redhat 6.0 kernel to
highly customized 2.2.14 on a debian system.  As near as I can tell
there is no common link between these guys aside from eepro with the
82557.

Right now the cron job thing seems to fix the problem, but it's
aggravating none the less.

--pat

> Given that there have been reports from other card types (see the vortex
> list), I'm guessing that this either a BIOS power management setting or a
> kernel problem.
> 
> There is no long-term timer on the driver that would change its behavior.
> The media polling occurs on 3 second or 60 second intervals, depending the
> driver.
> For the eepro100 only, if there hasn't been receive traffic for a few
> seconds we reinitialize the Rx filter.  This is to recover from a very rare
> Rx lockup that is documented to only happens with certain older transceivers
> in 10Mbps mode.  I doubt that you are seeing this issue.
> 
> Donald Becker
> Scyld Computing Corporation, becker@scyld.com
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