[eepro100] Dell PowerEdge 1550 (Intel Pro/100+ Dual Port)

[Donald Becker]

On Thu, 13 May 2004, Schulenberg Joshua wrote:

> --- John Madden <jmadden at ivytech.edu> wrote:
> > > I believe there may be a problem with the
> > > linux-eepro100 driver and the NIC that Dell ships
> > with
> > > many servers. It is a Dual Port Pro/100 (82558 I
> > > think).

> I have 2 1550s that are doing the same thing: No link
> light. They both worked under Windows 2000 with no
> problem.

The only obvious problem that might occur is if the EEPROM is not
correctly programmed with the transceiver.  This frequently occurs with
non-Intel boards.  The bogus GUID (Globally Unique ID) also violates the
PXE specs when doing network boot.

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