eepro100 wows

[Danny Crawford]

It did work for me. The BIOS upgrade fixed my eepro problem and floppy and
the DMA problem too. I think a FAQ about this motherboard would be a big
help. The tiger 100 seems to be a pretty good board now since I upgraded
that bios :)





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On Fri, 31 Jul 1998, Jonathon Fletcher wrote:

> 
>   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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