[eepro100] Re: Addressing "eth0: card reports no resources."

[Alvin Oga]

hi andrey..

thank you for your replies....

and i happen to be one of those that compile all needed drivers
into the kernel....and sometimes turn offf module support...

which made some of the boxes bomb on booting witht he infamous
"no card resources error" messages on boots...sometimes it hangs
and sometimes it boots smoothly and no problems there after...

but since using eepro100 modules.....i've not heard nor had any
problems since from those machines...

and now that 2.2.18 and 2.4.0 is out... we have a whole new bag
of stuff to play with...

thanx
alvin
http://www.linux-1U.net ... 1U Raid5 ... 500Gb per 1U chassis ...


On Thu, 18 Jan 2001, Andrey Savochkin wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 07:57:41PM -0800, Alvin Oga wrote:
> > in the mean time....
> > 
> > is it acceptable to ocntinue to use modules for the eepro100 driver
> > vs compiled into the kernel ??? ( seems to solve the immediate problem )
> 
> I don't understand you well, but yes, there are no serious differences in
> work with module or compiled-in driver.
> I personally prefer module, because it makes much more easy to try driver
> changes.
> 
> > -- also been hearng rumors that at high systained traffic networks...
> >    that the eepro100 driver w/ intel D815EEAAL motherboards
> >    locks up the system hard.... ( only power off to get it going again )
> 
> There has been a report that computer hangs in such cases with any driver and
> different OSes...
> 
> > -- had one of them bring that box in....did exactly the same download
> >    in his example hanging....and worked finee on a different network...
> > 
> > -- sometimes using new drivers included in new kernels fixes the driver
> >    problems in prior kernels....but sometimes the older drivers work
> >    better tooo.... ( good for job security i guess )
> 
> "card reports no resources" immediately after the driver load showed
> sporadically in any driver version until it is completely fixed.
> Different versions, different frequencies of unsuccessful loads...
> 
> Best regards
> 		Andrey
>