[eepro100] Sleep Bit mode and EEPROM fix?

[Kallol Biswas]

To turn off sleepmode 0x40a2 should be 0x40a0, infact 
it is the bit at position 1 if we count from 0.

> 
> On Wed, 13 Jun 2001, Gordon Gere wrote:
> 
> > 	Sorry for not reading all of the messages before this, but I just read the
> > seemingly unrelated message thread about "eepro100 driver frequently dying
> > in Linux 2.4.4", and came across the bug with the sleep bit mode.  Since
> > MPICH seems to run faster and therefor stresses the network more perhaps its
> > because of this that my program "stalls".  Here is my output from
> > eepro100-diag.
> > 
> > Index #1: Found a Intel i82557/8/9 EtherExpressPro100 adapter at 0xa400.
> > EEPROM contents, size 64x16:
> >     00: 0200 1cb3 32d5 0203 0000 0201 4701 0000
> >   0x08: 7213 8310 40a2 000c 8086 0000 0000 0000
> >                      ^--- bit 2 of word 10?
> >       ...
> >   0x30: 0128 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
> >   0x38: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 66ae
> >  The EEPROM checksum is correct.
> ...
> > Perhaps I missed, but I assume that the "^---" is where the sleep bit is.
> 
> I'm uncertain if "bit 2" means 0x0002 or 0x0004.
> I have only the '557 and '558 manuals, which both list word 10 as reserved.
> 
> > Since Donald Becker posted "If someone reports an EEPROM with the sleep mode
> > bit set, I'll make the trivial trivial code change to clear it with the '-G'
> > option.", I would like to provide a copy of my EEPROM but havn't yet figured
> > out how to get that feature of eepro100-diag + libflash to work.
> 
> The output above is the EEPROM contents.
> The boot ROM is technically also an EEPROM, but I refer to it as "Flash"
> to distinguish it from the much smaller serial EEPROM that contains the
> configuration information.
> 
> I'll update the diagnostic program...
> 
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