[eepro100] Thin Client EEPRO100 issue.

[Ben Greear]

Supposedly, the eepro100 driver in the 2.4.17-rc2 kernel
works with 10bt in these cases.  I haven't had time to test it yet.

The e100 also seems to work.

Danilo Godec wrote:

> On Wed, 20 Feb 2002, Kam Panesar wrote:
> 
> 
>>and 66 to specify the bootfile server name and the bootfile to load. When
>>using a 100Mbit network we are using a Linux server as the dhcp server. We
>>tried to use a 10Mbit linux server to do the same job as the NT server and
>>we experienced the same issues . i.e eepro100 command timeouts. I apologise
>>if this is not perhaps supplying you with the appropriate information but
>>would welcome any comments/suggestions which may help me resolve this issue.
>>Many thanks
>>
> 
> Unfortunately this is a hardware problem of the Intel ICH2 hub in relation
> to the LAN controller (the problem is described in
> ftp://download.intel.com/design/chipsets/specupdt/29824212.pdf).
> 
> Intel suggests a workaround by turning the feature 'Standby Enable' off. I
> think this is also what Donald Becker's eepro100-diag utility suggests,
> but I have tried it and it didn't help at all.
> 
> What makes me worry is this sentence: "There are no plans to fix this
> erratum."
> 
> My quick, dirty, somewhat costly and mostly lame workaround is another NIC
> (RTL8139 based) that I install in case the customer is using 10Mbps.
> 
>    D.
> 
> 
> 
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