[eepro100] (no subject)

[Donald Becker]

On Thu, 2 Aug 2001, David Chadwick Gibbons wrote:

> 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)".

The eepro100 mini-PCI adapter usually works with the scyld driver releases.

> 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.
..
> 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).

You will need the version in the 'test' directory.
But there is a problem with 2.4: the APM calls have been removed/changed.
Thus the interface won't automatically resume after the laptop is
suspended.

With the 2.2 kernel suspend/resume works correctly if you have APM enabled.


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