[eepro100] Thin Client EEPRO100 issue.

[Danilo Godec]

On Wed, 20 Feb 2002, Kam Panesar wrote:

> and 66 to specify the bootfile server name and the bootfile to load. When
> using a 100Mbit network we are using a Linux server as the dhcp server. We
> tried to use a 10Mbit linux server to do the same job as the NT server and
> we experienced the same issues . i.e eepro100 command timeouts. I apologise
> if this is not perhaps supplying you with the appropriate information but
> would welcome any comments/suggestions which may help me resolve this issue.
> Many thanks

Unfortunately this is a hardware problem of the Intel ICH2 hub in relation
to the LAN controller (the problem is described in
ftp://download.intel.com/design/chipsets/specupdt/29824212.pdf).

Intel suggests a workaround by turning the feature 'Standby Enable' off. I
think this is also what Donald Becker's eepro100-diag utility suggests,
but I have tried it and it didn't help at all.

What makes me worry is this sentence: "There are no plans to fix this
erratum."

My quick, dirty, somewhat costly and mostly lame workaround is another NIC
(RTL8139 based) that I install in case the customer is using 10Mbps.

   D.