[eepro100] Problems at 100fd with eepro100

[Vernon McPherron]

> A duplex mismatch won't prevent ping from working, but it will make 
> stream traffic (e.g. file transfers) very slow. 
>
> A negotiation mismatch might prevent communication, but will only happen
> if you limit the advertised media types. 

Hmm...  What about nearly all packets being dropped OR seriously delayed?

> What driver version? The one from scyld.com? 

Yes.  Let me check the version.
"eepro100.c:v1.10a 4/15/00 Donald Becker <becker@scyld.com>\n";
That's the one.

>> BUT on my single cpu machine I tried to compile Donald's, and that
>> didn't work. So I tried Andrey's latest and it worked great.
>
> What kernel version? 
> Didn't compile, or didn't work? What symptoms? 

Well I started on 2.3.99-pre6, and then when I had problems, I patched the
kernel to 2.3.99-pre8.  It DID compile, but I got the same errors that I
was getting on my SMP machine.  Seriously delayed packets, made it appear
that nothing was getting across the link.  

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