[eepro100] What do RX-FIFO errors mean?

Donald Becker becker@scyld.com
Fri, 24 Aug 2001 01:02:22 -0400 (EDT)


On Thu, 23 Aug 2001, Ben Greear wrote:

> I have a program that reads off of a raw PACKET socket on my laptop.
> I'm using a 3com 575BT CardBus NIC, but I'm hoping the question/answer
> is general enough that some of you kind folks will know :)

Use the vortex@scyld.com list -- the 3c575 is a Vortex card.  (Well,
really a Cyclone...)

> As an aside, does the eepro100 driver (standard in the 2.4 series
> kernel) support CardBus NICs?  It doesn't seem to work in my
> laptop, but there may be other issues.  Does the e100?

I suspect the one in the 2.4 kernel does not.  My version has supported
CardBus versions and hot-swap PCI for about two years.

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