[eepro100] Need help correcting the following error

[Bruce Ferrell]

I'm lucky I guess... I don't have to re-boot... so far it's restarted itself... It just makes a for a hiccupy
system :(

In two cases, the bloody thing is integrated into a single board computer in a passive backplane and that
worries me.

Daniel Veillard wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 12:43:11PM -0700, Bruce Ferrell wrote:
> > I'm running RedHat 6.2 2.2.14 kernel.  driver module is:
>
>   Same here ... rpmfind.net Eepro100 ethernet card froze one too much time
> today:
>
>     Ethernet controller: Intel 82557 (rev 1).
> connected to a
>     BayStack 350THD
> running
>     Linux rpmfind.net 2.2.16-3.ext3smp #1 SMP
>
> It was negociating 100MBps fullduplex
> It had the tendancy to just hung every couple of weeks (I like that PLIP
> cable I have to a machine nearby !).
> Suddenly the machine which usually serves around 30Mbps stops serving
> pings don't works (I don't know if emission or reception or both get
> stuck), I have tried stopping eth0 removing the module, reinserting it
> and restarting eth0, no way refuses to work until rebooted:
>
>

[ clipage here]

>
>   At that point I stopped eth0, rmmod'ed eepro100, insmod'ed a tulip
> and made it my default eth0 ... I really like PLIP ! We later on
> switched the ethernet cable to get the tulip to connect to the same port
> the swicth as the eepro100 was using, seems to work fine.
>
> Daniel
>
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