[eepro100] Intel PRO/100 S Dual Port Server adapter

Donald Becker becker@scyld.com
Fri, 3 Aug 2001 19:57:32 -0400 (EDT)


On Fri, 3 Aug 2001, Andrew Pollock wrote:

> Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2001 20:42:02 +1000 (EST)
> From: Andrew Pollock <andrew@andrew.net.au>
> To: eepro100@scyld.com
> Subject: [eepro100] Intel PRO/100 S Dual Port Server adapter
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I bought an Intel PRO/100 S Dual Port Server adapter and chucked it in my
> PC, and got lovely stuff like this when I booted up:
> 
> eth0: Invalid EEPROM checksum 0xffc0, check settings before activating
> this device!
> eth0: OEM i82557/i82558 10/100 Ethernet at 0x5800, FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF, IRQ
> 0.
....
> The PC is an early Pentium 75, running kernel 2.2.14 with a kernel with
> Intel EtherExpress PRO support compiled in.

The device hasn't been powered on.

This is one of the reasons why I wrote pci-scan.c -- try the updated
driver.

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