eepro100 wows

[Jonathon Fletcher]

  I spent most of last night working this out out myself. I'd asked Donald
exactly the same question a day or so ago. Mailed him an answer last
night. Same Motherboard, same interface card. 

  Here's my solution (it works for me):

  *) Upgrade the BIOS <http://www.tyan.com/html/body_tiger_100_bios.html>
to 1.07. I used the 'file called amiboot.rom on a floppy and hold down
some keys while powering the machine on' method - worked great for me.
Look in the back of the motherboard manual for details of how to do this.

  *) make sure that the 'pnp aware os' bios setting is set to 'no'. (This
is in the documentation).

  The bios upgrade also fixed a couple of other things (floppy disk not
working properly under linux and ide dma not working properly under linux)
for me as well. Bonus points for tyan.

  This should be all that you need to do. I also added the redhat 5.1
updates <ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/redhat-5.1/updates/i386> for the
2.0.35 kernle. This comes with 0.99B release of the driver - not the
newest, but it's working for me. I'll try 1.02 a little later.

  My card is now working. Before yesterday it was display exactly the same
message as yours.

-Jon

PS: If this works for you too, maybe there could be a faq entry for the
tyan board with a eepro interface card ?

On Wed, 29 Jul 1998 drc@ns1.theeii.net wrote:
> 
> Dear Mr. Lafferriere:
> 
> I downloaded the new driver and I compiled the module and then tryed to
> load the driver with insmod but this was the error message again..
> 
> [root@linux /root]# insmod /root/eepro100.o
> eepro100.c:v1.02 7/24/98 Donald Becker
> http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/eepro100.html
> eepro100.c:v1.02 7/24/98 Donald Becker
> http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/eepro100.html
> eth0: Intel EtherExpress Pro 10/100 at 0xef40, 00:A0:C9:70:3D:DB, IRQ 9.
>   Board assembly 678400-001, Physical connectors present: RJ45
>   Primary interface chip i82555 PHY #1.
> Self test failed, status ffffffff:
>  Failure to initialize the i82557.
>  Verify that the card is a bus-master capable slot.
>   Receiver lock-up workaround activated.
> 
> 
> This motherboard is a Tiger 100 made by Tyan. It's a dual P11 motherboard
> but with only 1 cpu ( 300Mhz ). My kernel version is 2.0.34. I have 3 of
> the Intel etherexpress cards, all of which are PCI and are the 100b series
> of cards.
> 
> I tryed all three of them and the same message pops up when loading the
> driver.
> 
> 
> On Tue, 28 Jul 1998, Mr. James W. Laferriere wrote:
> 
> > 
> > 	Hello Mr Crawford,	Yup,
> > 
> > 	ftp://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/pub/linux/drivers/test/eepro100.c
> > 
> > On Wed, 29 Jul 1998 drc@ns1.theeii.net wrote:
> > 
> > > Mr. Becker:
> > > 
> > > Hi I just upgraded my system to a P11 300Mhz with the Intel 440BX chipset.
> > > now the ethernet card that I was using in my old P150 is not working. Here
> > > is the error message when it hits init()
> > > 
> > > eepro100.c:v0.99B 4/7/98 Donald Becker linux-eepro100@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov
> > > eepro100.c:v0.99B 4/7/98 Donald Becker linux-eepro100@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov
> > > eth0: Intel EtherExpress Pro 10/100 at 0xef40, 00:A0:C9:5D:7A:5C, IRQ 7.
> > >   Board assembly 667280-003, Physical connectors present: RJ45
> > >   Primary interface chip i82555 PHY #1.
> > > Self test failed, status ffffffff:
> > >  Failure to initialize the i82557.
> > >  Verify that the card is a bus-master capable slot.
> > >   Receiver lock-up workaround activated.
> > > eth0: Transmit timed out: status 0000 command 0020.
> > > eth0: Trying to restart the transmitter...
> > > eth0: Transmit timed out: status 0000 command 0010.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Can you tell me what to do to fix this problem please.
> > > 
> > > Reply to "dcrawford@talleytech.com"
> > > 
> > > This site/linuxbox may not have sendmail setup so the above address witll
> > > work.
> >  				Hth, JimL
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  Jonathon Fletcher,
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