[eepro100] eepro100 and Intel STL2 - Possible solution

[Kallol Biswas]

What problems are you talking about? The BMC upgrade does
fix/workaround couple of problems with the card.

> 
> I was following this thread, since we were having almost the exact same
> problems here in Santa Cruz. We had basically given up, and ordered a
> machine with a different motherboard. As a last minute test, we decided to
> go to Intel's web site and do all firmware upgrades available for the STL2
> motherboard. We upgraded the BIOS and the BMC. The latter one is the one
> that helps.
> 
> In our case, we upgraded the BMC from 1.16 to 1.19. This has solved the
> problem with the ethernet with either the eepro100 driver or with Intel's
> e100 driver.
> 
> Note: we are still switching motherboards, so our testing of this solution
> has been very limited, but I wanted to post it here for the other people
> that have been having problems with the STL2.
> 
> In summary: Go to Intel's site -
> 
>   http://appsr.cps.intel.com/scripts-df/Product_Filter.asp?ProductID=464
> 
> and grab the latest BMC upgrade (I think it's 1.19). Follow the
> instructions in the readme file. (You may have to upgrade the BIOS, and
> other stuff too). Then try again.
> 
> Good luck!
> 
> Jorge
> 
> 
> 
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