[eepro100] EEpro100, Red Hat 7.1, wait_for_cmd_done timeout errors

Jim Hribnak hribnak@nucleus.com
Thu Jan 9 16:47:01 2003


That is what driver I WAS running on Jan 3rd before I took the plunge and
tried Don's updated driver (11/17/2002).  Still did not help.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Brett Thorson" <bthorson@foretec.com>
To: "Donald Becker" <becker@scyld.com>
Cc: <eepro100@scyld.com>
Sent: Tuesday, January 07, 2003 12:04 AM
Subject: Re: [eepro100] EEpro100, Red Hat 7.1, wait_for_cmd_done timeout
errors


> On Mon, 6 Jan 2003, Donald Becker wrote:
>
> > On Mon, 6 Jan 2003, Brett Thorson wrote:
> >
> > > This bug hit us pretty hard too.  I've looked around, and haven't seen
> > > anywhere that points to a direct solution.
> >
> > > So either there isn't one, or I just haven't found it yet.
> >
> > Have your tried the driver from scyld yet?
> >
> I guess I am a little confused.  Confused enough to drive into the office
> at 2am to make sure I wasn't going crazy.
>
> I just looked in my logs, and I am using the scyld driver.
>
> kernel: eepro100.c:v1.09j-t 9/29/99 Donald Becker
> http://www.scyld.com/network/eepro100.html
>
> I am wondering if maybe you don't mean an updated version of the driver?
> Then new error is
> Transmit timed out: status 0090  0c00 at 2033/2093 command 00ca000.
> and then of course the wait_for_cmd_done timeout!
>
> Which I think is just the old error, but more descriptive.
>
> So are you recomending that I take this file:
> ftp://ftp.scyld.com/pub/network/eepro100.c
>
> and follow these directions
> http://www.scyld.com/network/updates.html#single
>
> To get rid of this error?
>
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