[yellowfin] GNIC II Driver

[Keith Underwood]

The driver distributed in the 2.2.16 kernel should work fine.

				Keith

On Sun, 22 Apr 2001, shreenivasa HV wrote:

> Hi,
> I was trying to install the Packet Engines GNIC-II gigabit ethernet card
> onto some of my Linux systems. I am running Redhat Linux 7.0 with kernel
> version 2.2.16. The systems are P-III 600MHz. I have connected two systems
> which have the GNIC-II cards to each other through a cross-over
> optical-fibre cable. I downloaded the driver available from the Scyld site -
> http://www.scyld.com/network/modules.html and exactly followed the
> instructions. Also I inserted the PCI-SCAN and HAMACHI modules.
>
> When I try to ping one machine from another after 15 pings the ping
> program hangs consistently. In each machine I have added a static route to
> the other machine as the IP gateway.
> I even tried to ssh between them, but that again hangs during log on. It
> seems like only the first few packets go through.
> After some time the receiving end starts showing this error message.
>
> "eth1: Hamachi transmit timed out, status 00003803"
>
> Has anyone had any similar problems and does anyone know of a fix for this?
>
> Thanks,
> Shreeni.
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Keith Underwood                   Parallel Architecture Research Lab (PARL)
keithu@parl.clemson.edu                                  Clemson University