[eepro100] eepro100 crashing with D815EEA motherboard

[Brian Hirt]

Hello,

I recently purchased an Intel D815EEA motherboard that has an 
integrated LAN apaptor.   I'm using RedHat 6.2, which doesn't
know about this card, so I installed the most recent netdriver
code, ftp://ftp.scyld.com/pub/network/netdriver-2.0-3.src.rpm

After installing the new drivers, the driver is recognized, but 
my machine locks up whenever I try to bring the interface up, 
forcing me to cycle the power.  The lock up appears to happen 
100% of the time.  If I initialize the driver with 
"options=0x40" the driver seems to always initialize, but at 
10Mbps half duplex.  I was willing to live with this drawback, 
but now I'm running into more problems.

The driver will periodically fail with a transmit time out:

	kernel: eth0: Transmit timed out: status 0050  0080 at 2500/2512 commands 000c0000 000c0000 000c0000. 

sometimes the machine will continue to work, sometimes is locks
up so badly that I have to cycle the power.  Sometimes it locks
up without an error message.  I can reproduce the crash by doing 
an ftp of a large file (600mb).  I have three identical boxes
that all exhibit the same problems.  I'm at a totaly loss about
what to do.  If there is more information that might help, let 
me know.

Any suggestions?  Is this driver known not to work with the D815EEA?

My linux kernel is 2.2.14

The driver recognizes the card as such:

Intel i82562 EEPro100 at 0xc8036000, 00:D0:B7:A6:87:5D, IRQ 11. 


eepro100-diag -f -aa, produces:
	eepro100-diag.c:v2.02 7/19/2000 Donald Becker (becker@scyld.com)
	 http://www.scyld.com/diag/index.html
	Index #1: Found a Intel i82562 EEPro100 adapter at 0xdf00.
	i82557 chip registers at 0xdf00:
	  00000050 074900e4 00000000 00080002 18250000 00000600
	  No interrupt sources are pending.
	   The transmit unit state is 'Suspended'.
	   The receive unit state is 'Ready'.
	  This status is normal for an activated but idle interface.

eepro100-diag -f -e, produces:
	eepro100-diag.c:v2.02 7/19/2000 Donald Becker (becker@scyld.com)
	 http://www.scyld.com/diag/index.html
	Index #1: Found a Intel i82562 EEPro100 adapter at 0xdf00.
	Intel EtherExpress Pro 10/100 EEPROM contents:
	  Station address 00:D0:B7:A6:87:5D.
	  Board assembly 000000-000, Physical connectors present: RJ45
	  Primary interface chip i82555 PHY #1.

mii-diag eth0
	Basic registers of MII PHY #1:  0000 7809 02a8 0330 05e1 0000 0000 0000.
	 Basic mode control register 0x0000: Auto-negotiation disabled, with
	 Speed fixed at 10 mbps, half-duplex.
	 Basic mode status register 0x7809 ... 780d.
	   Link status: previously broken, but now reestablished.
	 Link partner information information is not exchanged when in fixed speed mode.



-- 
The world's most ambitious and comprehensive PC game database project.

                      http://www.mobygames.com