[eepro100] Re: system hangs @ boot-time when bringing up eth0

Donald Becker becker@scyld.com
Fri, 8 Sep 2000 01:48:08 -0400 (EDT)


On Fri, 8 Sep 2000, Derek Glidden wrote:

> > "Krawl, Roeland" wrote:
> > I believe that the "No buffers" and "No resources" problem would get
> > fixed a lot sooner if Intel would permit the free flow of information
...
> I hate to be such a squeaky wheel on this issue, but it is literally
> costing my company time and money everytime someone has to drive out to
> physically reset a remote machine that did not come up on boot because
> the EEPro initialization has hung.  And probably is going to cost us
..
> I have gotten notes back that this is a "known issue" but no reasonable
> solution for it yet.  I can understand if Intel does not want to release

Have your tried the driver at
      ftp://www.scyld.com/pub/network/eepro100.c

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