[eepro100] is there a working driver for linux alpha

[Craig Tierney]

I have 144 alpha nodes, 2 way SMP each.  They all have the DE600
compaq card installed (eepro100 compatible).  I am assuming you
have the same one.

We are using the same ethernet driver, but we are using the 2.4.14
kernel.  We are not having any problems.  

Every card and every port on every switch is locked to 100FDX.
We have had not problems with this setup.

If you want to try the e100 driver, I suggest that you download
the latest redhat kernel.  It is included in their 3rd party drivers.
I have never tried it myself, but I suspect that you might have
a chance at getting that working.

Craig


> I have a 60 node alpha cluster (SMP with 2 processors in each node)
> with eepro100's in them that periodicly have NETDEV timeouts with
> moderate file transfers (~45Meg).  I'm using kernel 2.4.9 with the
> supplied driver:
> 
> eepro100.c:v1.09j-t
> eepro100.c: $Revision: 1.36 $ 2000/11/17 Modified by Andrey V. Savochkin
> 
> So far I have tried to update the TX|RX_RING_SIZE to 64, updated drivers
> from newer kernel sources, and the ones from scyld.  The ones from scyld
> that I downloaded today load into the kernel fine, but I only get:
> 
> eth0: Transmit timed out: status 0000  0010 at 0/15 commands 0001a000 00020000 00030000.
> [ snip ring dump ]
> eth0: Restarting the chip...
> Command 0070 was not accepted after 10001 polls!
> Command 0010 was not immediately accepted, 10001 ticks!
> 
> Which repeats until I unload the driver.
> 
> I have also tried the e100 driver from Intel, but that does not work
> either with Alphas.
> 
> So does anyone have any suggestions for getting the eepro100 driver
> work on Alpha's or possibly another NIC that has functioning drivers?
> (I have also used DECchip based cards, but those too are problematic
> with negotiating 100FDX connections, even when forced).
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Mike
> 
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> Michael Barnes <mbarnes@compsci.wm.edu>
> UNIX Systems Administrator
> College of William and Mary
> Phone: (757) 207-3611
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Craig Tierney (ctierney@hpti.com)