[eepro100] first packet always lost
Donald Becker
becker@scyld.com
Thu Dec 6 15:11:00 2001
On Thu, 6 Dec 2001, Raphael Clifford wrote:
> I have a network of over 100 linux machines all running kernel 2.2.20
> unpatched and with the driver for eepro100 (that comes with the source)
> compiled into the source.
Try the driver from
http://www.scyld.com/network/eepro100.html
ftp://www.scyld.com/pub/network/eepro100.c
> (the card is forced to 100 base T at startup)
OK.
> ./eepro100-diag -eef
>
> eepro100-diag.c:v2.05 6/13/2001 Donald Becker (becker@scyld.com)
> http://www.scyld.com/diag/index.html
> Index #1: Found a Intel i82557/8/9 EtherExpressPro100 adapter at 0xef00.
...
> Sleep mode is enabled. This is not recommended.
> Under high load the card may not respond to
> PCI requests, and thus cause a master abort.
Run
eepro100-diag -G 0 -w -w -f
and power cycle the machine.
Donald Becker becker@scyld.com
Scyld Computing Corporation http://www.scyld.com
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