[eepro100] eepro100 crashing with D815EEA motherboard
Jerry Glomph Black
black@real.com
Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:58 -0700 (PDT)
Our experience with this mess is that we have just about gotten rid
of the annoying 'no-resources boot' problem by compiling the eepro100 driver
as a module, and loading it the usual way (modprobe eepro100) at boot time.
(this is on Slackware, your RedHat mileage may vary. I'll skip the
mandatory distro-flaming here.)
When compiled in, the driver and/or interface gets swamped during the
initialization. We also cranked up the RX and TX ring buffer sizes.
On Sun, 1 Oct 2000, Alvin Oga wrote:
>
> hi ya brian...
>
> yeah...i got some drivers from intel tooo.. that didnt work...
> ( spent too much time..
>
> i have not yet checked that one pro100/e100*
> ( on the to do list
>
> and yeah....these servers i built is deployed as video servers
> so its fairly hefty usage i suppose
>
> have fun linuxing
> alvin
> http://www.linux-1U.net....1u firewalls...1u raid5...
>
>
> On Sun, 1 Oct 2000, Brian Hirt wrote:
>
> > Alvin,
> >
> > Thanks for this suggestion. I think I'm going to use the
> > Intel written driver as suggested by someone else at:
> >
> > ftp://download.intel.com/support/network/adapter/pro100/e100-1.3.14.tgz
> >
> > I've spent way too much time with the eepro100 driver and the
> > e100 is working just fine in 5 minutes.
> >
> > If the e100 turns out to be unstable, I'll give your patched
> > driver a shot. These machines will be heavily loaded, so
> > I'll let you know how the e100 driver pans if if you like.
> >
> >
> > --brian
> >
> > On Sun, Oct 01, 2000 at 03:38:02PM -0700, Alvin Oga wrote:
> > >
> > > hi ya brian...
> > >
> > > i have dozens of servers with the Intel D815EEAAL motherboard
> > > ( onboard lan...
> > >
> > > I am using the "patched" eepro100.c driver...
> > > http://www.linux-1U.net/MotherBoard/ee*
> > >
> > > i moved the old eepro100.c driver aside and than used the patched one
> > > cd /usr/src/linux-2.2.16/drivers/net
> > > cp -p eepro100.c eepro100.2.2.16.c
> > > patch -m0 < eepro100.patch.txt
> > > ( but i manually edited the files instead )
> > > - than recompile that modules or into the kernel
> > >
> > > -- sometimes i need to re-run lilo or remake the kernel if at bootup
> > > the systems gets the silly erroneous(?) "eth0: resources not available"etc
> > >
> > > have fun
> > > alvin
> > > http://www.linux-1U.net.....1U firwalss...1U raid5....
> > >
> > >
> > > On Sun, 1 Oct 2000, Brian Hirt wrote:
> > >
> > > > 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.
> > > >
> > > >
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