[eepro100] i82555 lock-up

[Luc Lalonde]

Hola Christian,

I'm trying out the Intel driver (version 1.6.13 release July 2001).  I'll
see if it makes a difference.

FYI we're on a 100MB network.

Cheers.

On Thu, 26 Jul 2001, Christian Robottom Reis wrote:

> On Thu, 26 Jul 2001, Luc Lalonde wrote:
> 
> > I'm trying to pin down the source of my system lockups.  I've got an
> > onboard(SystemWorks) i82555 network card on a Dell PowerEdge2400 and I
> > suspect that it's the source of my lock-ups.
> 
> Are there reproducible causes, and what is the network speed?
> 
> > I'm running kernel 2.4.7 now but the lockup occured with 2.4.7-pre6.
> > I've been upgrading my kernel every time I had a lock-up since 2.4.2.
> 
> Check the kernel ChangeLog to see if there was a driver update. AFAICR
> there has been no modification to the kernel eepro100 driver since
> 11/2000. You might try Donald's driver, Intel's driver, or paging
> Andrey, I guess.
> 
> > I the kernel messages it says that the workaround is enabled...Could it
> > be that there are still problems?  Here are the relevant messages:
> 
> There seem to be a load of lockup problems with these cards (blame Intel,
> I guess), and while I think that particular bug is fixed a variety of them
> still remain.
> 
> Take care,
> --
> Christian Reis, Senior Engineer, Async Open Source, Brazil.
> http://async.com.br/~kiko/ | [+55 16] 272 3330 | NMFL
> 
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