eepro100 failure at boot: no resources

[Orion Poplawski]

About 50% of the time at boot on of my eepro100 interfaces fails with the
following two messages being repeated over and over, effectively kiiling the
system:

eth2: card reports no resources.
eth2: card reports no RX buffers.

I'm going to take a stab at the cause of the problem and say it's because of
the large about of broadcast traffic on that particular network.  I'm seen
similar problems with Intel nics under UnixWare7.

Here are the boot messages from a normal boot:

eepro100.c:v1.09j-t 9/29/99 Donald Becker
http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/eepro100.html
eepro100.c: $Revision: 1.20.2.3 $ 2000/03/02 Modified by Andrey V. Savochkin
<saw@saw.sw.com.sg> and others
eth0: OEM i82557/i82558 10/100 Ethernet at 0xc383d000, 00:50:8B:66:06:BD,
IRQ 11.
  Board assembly 703555-006, Physical connectors present: RJ45
  Primary interface chip i82555 PHY #1.
  General self-test: passed.
  Serial sub-system self-test: passed.
  Internal registers self-test: passed.
  ROM checksum self-test: passed (0x24c9f043).
  Receiver lock-up workaround activated.
eth1: OEM i82557/i82558 10/100 Ethernet at 0xc383f000, 00:50:8B:66:06:BC,
IRQ 10.
  Board assembly 703555-006, Physical connectors present: RJ45
  Primary interface chip i82555 PHY #1.
  General self-test: passed.
  Serial sub-system self-test: passed.
  Internal registers self-test: passed.
  ROM checksum self-test: passed (0x24c9f043).
  Receiver lock-up workaround activated.
eth2: Intel PCI EtherExpress Pro100 at 0xc3841000, 00:D0:B7:58:62:DB, IRQ 9.
  Board assembly 000000-000, Physical connectors present: RJ45
  Primary interface chip i82555 PHY #1.
  General self-test: passed.
  Serial sub-system self-test: passed.
  Internal registers self-test: passed.
  ROM checksum self-test: passed (0x04f4518b).
  Receiver lock-up workaround activated.

Any suggestions greatly appreciated.

- Orion

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