[eepro100] (no subject)

[David Chadwick Gibbons]

I've seen some mumblings here and there on the list archives about some 
eepro100 adapters not working. Mine doesn't, and I didn't really see a 
solution for it. Hopefully I just missed it. :)

I have an "Intel 10/100 mini-PCI" NIC integrated in my Compaq Armada M700. 
lspci shows it as "00:09.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82557 
[Ethernet Pro 100] (rev 09)".

I'm using RedHat V7.1 with the 2.4.x kernel. I also tried it with RedHat 
6.2, using the 2.2.16 kernel, and the behavior was the same.

Basically, the built-in eepro100.o driver always displays this message: 
eepro100: wait_for_cmd_done timeout!

I tried using the latest driver's from Intel (the e100.o driver). At first, 
the card worked! But after a reboot, it didn't. Some more experimentation 
showed that often (but not always) if I loaded the Intel driver it would 
initialize the card, then I could unload that and load the eepro100.o driver 
and it would work for a while.

I tried compiling the latest driver off the scyld.com site, but it doesn't 
seem to compile with the 2.4.x kernel (hopefully that's just me).

I did download the diagnostics from scyld.com and it showed the card as 
fine. I even turned off the sleep bit in the card just for grin--- no 
changes.

Am I out of luck with this card? It functions wonderfully in the various 
Windows versions on the same machine...

Thanks!

Chad Gibbons
dcgibbons@hotmail.com


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