[eepro100] eepro100 crashing with D815EEA motherboard

Brian Hirt bhirt@mobygames.com
Sun, 1 Oct 2000 19:00:18 -0500


Alvin,

Thanks for this suggestion.  I think I'm going to use the
Intel written driver as suggested by someone else at:

ftp://download.intel.com/support/network/adapter/pro100/e100-1.3.14.tgz

I've spent way too much time with the eepro100 driver and the
e100 is working just fine in 5 minutes.

If the e100 turns out to be unstable, I'll give your patched
driver a shot.  These machines will be heavily loaded, so
I'll let you know how the e100 driver pans if if you like.


--brian

On Sun, Oct 01, 2000 at 03:38:02PM -0700, Alvin Oga wrote:
> 
> hi ya brian...
> 
> i have dozens of servers with the Intel D815EEAAL motherboard
> ( onboard lan... 
> 
> I am using the "patched" eepro100.c driver...
> 	http://www.linux-1U.net/MotherBoard/ee*
> 
> i moved the old eepro100.c driver aside and than used the patched one
> 	cd /usr/src/linux-2.2.16/drivers/net
> 	cp -p eepro100.c eepro100.2.2.16.c
> 	patch -m0 < eepro100.patch.txt  
> 	( but i manually edited the files instead )
> 	- than recompile that modules or into the kernel
> 
> -- sometimes i need to re-run lilo or remake the kernel if at bootup
>    the systems gets the silly erroneous(?) "eth0: resources not available"etc
> 
> have fun
> alvin
> http://www.linux-1U.net.....1U firwalss...1U raid5....
>  
> 
> On Sun, 1 Oct 2000, Brian Hirt wrote:
> 
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I recently purchased an Intel D815EEA motherboard that has an 
> > integrated LAN apaptor.   I'm using RedHat 6.2, which doesn't
> > know about this card, so I installed the most recent netdriver
> > code, ftp://ftp.scyld.com/pub/network/netdriver-2.0-3.src.rpm
> > 
> > After installing the new drivers, the driver is recognized, but 
> > my machine locks up whenever I try to bring the interface up, 
> > forcing me to cycle the power.  The lock up appears to happen 
> > 100% of the time.  If I initialize the driver with 
> > "options=0x40" the driver seems to always initialize, but at 
> > 10Mbps half duplex.  I was willing to live with this drawback, 
> > but now I'm running into more problems.
> > 
> > The driver will periodically fail with a transmit time out:
> > 
> > 	kernel: eth0: Transmit timed out: status 0050  0080 at 2500/2512 commands 000c0000 000c0000 000c0000. 
> > 
> > sometimes the machine will continue to work, sometimes is locks
> > up so badly that I have to cycle the power.  Sometimes it locks
> > up without an error message.  I can reproduce the crash by doing 
> > an ftp of a large file (600mb).  I have three identical boxes
> > that all exhibit the same problems.  I'm at a totaly loss about
> > what to do.  If there is more information that might help, let 
> > me know.
> > 
> > Any suggestions?  Is this driver known not to work with the D815EEA?
> > 
> > My linux kernel is 2.2.14
> > 
> > The driver recognizes the card as such:
> > 
> > Intel i82562 EEPro100 at 0xc8036000, 00:D0:B7:A6:87:5D, IRQ 11. 
> > 
> > 
> > eepro100-diag -f -aa, produces:
> > 	eepro100-diag.c:v2.02 7/19/2000 Donald Becker (becker@scyld.com)
> > 	 http://www.scyld.com/diag/index.html
> > 	Index #1: Found a Intel i82562 EEPro100 adapter at 0xdf00.
> > 	i82557 chip registers at 0xdf00:
> > 	  00000050 074900e4 00000000 00080002 18250000 00000600
> > 	  No interrupt sources are pending.
> > 	   The transmit unit state is 'Suspended'.
> > 	   The receive unit state is 'Ready'.
> > 	  This status is normal for an activated but idle interface.
> > 
> > eepro100-diag -f -e, produces:
> > 	eepro100-diag.c:v2.02 7/19/2000 Donald Becker (becker@scyld.com)
> > 	 http://www.scyld.com/diag/index.html
> > 	Index #1: Found a Intel i82562 EEPro100 adapter at 0xdf00.
> > 	Intel EtherExpress Pro 10/100 EEPROM contents:
> > 	  Station address 00:D0:B7:A6:87:5D.
> > 	  Board assembly 000000-000, Physical connectors present: RJ45
> > 	  Primary interface chip i82555 PHY #1.
> > 
> > mii-diag eth0
> > 	Basic registers of MII PHY #1:  0000 7809 02a8 0330 05e1 0000 0000 0000.
> > 	 Basic mode control register 0x0000: Auto-negotiation disabled, with
> > 	 Speed fixed at 10 mbps, half-duplex.
> > 	 Basic mode status register 0x7809 ... 780d.
> > 	   Link status: previously broken, but now reestablished.
> > 	 Link partner information information is not exchanged when in fixed speed mode.
> > 
> > 
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