[eepro100] Thin Client EEPRO100 issue.

[Donald Becker]

On Mon, 25 Feb 2002, Danilo Godec wrote:

> On Wed, 20 Feb 2002, Donald Becker wrote:
> 
> > The Sleep-State errata cannot be fixed by the driver at run-time.  The
> > only solution is to clear the EEPROM bit and power cycle the machine.
> > That's the only way to get the chip will to disable the broken feature.
> 
> I used the eepro100-diag util to disable the power saving option, that is
> causing problems. Right now I'm testing it and it seems good so far, but
> I'd like to know: is this THE solution? Or is there still a slight chance
> of eepro100 messing up in the future?

We can't know all of the bugs in the chips.  We don't even know the
current characterized bugs, as Intel doesn't make the errata list public.

That said, I believe the current driver release addresses the known
problems. 

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