[eepro100] Lockup with Intel PRO/100+ Dual Port Server Adapter

[Thomas Lorenzen]

     Hi'

   I have recently purchased an Intel PRO/100+ Dual Port
Server Adapter, which chips states to be of type 82558.

   At first the two ports on the nic were detected with
different irq's, but after some time I got the machine to
actually detect the two ports on the nic with the same irq.

   However, I seem to be having problems bringing up the
interfaces, as doing so tends to hard lock the machine.
Sometimes it hard locks already at 'ifconfig eth0', other
times it hard locks at 'ifconfig eth1', and I have also
experienced a hard lock after some ping activity to the
ports. These lock ups occur regardless of the driver being
build into the kernel or loaded as a module. Furthermore
both the 2.2.16 shipped driver and the newest scyld driver
as well as the e100 driver from intel shows these symptoms.

   I any of you have got a cure for this phenomenon, I would
be very happy to recieve come clues.

   Thanks for any help in advance.

   Best Regards.

     Thomas.

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