[eepro100] eepro100 and Intel STL2 - Possible solution

[Jorge Garcia]

See the May 2001 thread called "eepro100 and Intel STL2" on this list. As
far as I can tell, nobody ever came up with a solution to that thread...

Jorge

On Fri, 8 Jun 2001, Kallol Biswas wrote:

> 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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