[eepro100] eepro strange lock-up

[Alisdair McDiarmid]

I'm using an EtherExpress Pro/100+ Management adaptor on my VIA
KX133 machine here, and experiencing a strange problem. If I
download from this machine, the transfer pauses after approximately
two seconds, and is highly sporadic after that.

The card was bought to replace an old RealTek 8139, which functions
perfectly, so I'm sure it's the Intel card/driver that's the
problem.

I note that the driver loads and states `Receiver lock-up bug exists
-- enabling work-around'; is this the problem I'm encountering? How
can I work around it? Help please!

The (2.2.18) kernel reports:

eepro100.c:v1.09j-t 9/29/99 Donald Becker http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/driv ers/eepro100.html
eepro100.c: $Revision: 1.20.2.10 $ 2000/05/31 Modified by Andrey V. Savochkin <saw@saw.sw.com.sg> and others
eepro100.c: VA Linux custom, Dragan Stancevic <visitor@valinux.com> 2000/11/15
eth0: OEM i82557/i82558 10/100 Ethernet, 00:D0:B7:1B:BA:3E, IRQ 3.
  Receiver lock-up bug exists -- enabling work-around.
  Board assembly 734938-002, Physical connectors present: RJ45
  Primary interface chip i82555 PHY #1.
  General self-test: passed.
  Serial sub-system self-test: passed.
  Internal registers self-test: passed.
  ROM checksum self-test: passed (0x04f4518b).
eepro100.c:v1.09j-t 9/29/99 Donald Becker http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/eepro100.html
eepro100.c: $Revision: 1.20.2.10 $ 2000/05/31 Modified by Andrey V. Savochkin <saw@saw.sw.com.sg> and others
eepro100.c: VA Linux custom, Dragan Stancevic <visitor@valinux.com> 2000/11/15

and lspci reports:

[root@piped /home/alisdair] # lspci -s 00:09.0 -v  
00:09.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82557 [Ethernet Pro
100] (rev 08)
        Subsystem: Intel Corporation EtherExpress PRO/100+
Management Adapter with Alert On LAN*
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 3
        Memory at dc000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable)
        I/O ports at a400
        Memory at db800000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable)
        Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 2

Also, does anyone have a recommendation for a *working* Wake-On-LAN
card?
-- 
Alisdair McDiarmid                    <http://wasters.org/pubkey.asc>