[eepro100] RE: WATCHDOG timeout

[Donald Becker]

On Mon, 24 Jun 2002, Afzal, Naeem M wrote:

> From: "Afzal, Naeem M" <naeem.m.afzal@intel.com>

I note that are from Intel -- you have access to current information,
while I have to figure out the chip operation from its behavior.

> > What driver version?
> > What is the detection message?
>
> eepro100.c:v1.09j-t 9/29/99 Donald Becker
> http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/eepro100.html

Try a current version, which works around the bugs (at least the ones we
know about) in the newer chips.

> <4>eth0: Invalid EEPROM checksum 0x552b, check settings before activating
> this device!

This is curious.  Has something changed the EEPROM configuration?

> <6>eth0: Intel Corp. 82559ER (#2), 00:90:D7:00:10:20, IRQ 15.

> > What does
> >    eepro100-diag --force -a -ee
> > report while the problem is happening?
> >
> I compiled eepro100-diag.c for xscale and ran it, it failed at while trying
> to do

Ahhh, I didn't know this was for the Xscale architecture.

> if (iopl(3)<0) {
> 	perror("Nework adapter diagnosgtic: iopl()");
> 	fprintf(stderr, "This program must be run as root.\n");
> 	return 2;

OK, that means your libc doesn't have the functions needed to run
diagnostics.
Someone should fix that.

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