I had a lot of problems with eepro100 cards, and wouldn't recommend it to anybody using linux....as Andrey Savochkin (the current maintainer of the driver) said once , " I'm working on the next generation workaround" .... And , yes, under 2.4 it refuses to work..... My advice is - get 3com 3C905B , modify max_interrupt_work in linux/drivers/net/3c59x.c to something like 1024, and live happily ever after....
On Fri, 2 Feb 2001, Alexander Reelsen wrote: > Hi > > I am having heavy problems with getting eepro100 cards to run on Compaq > Proliant DL 360. > > The nics just work fine on a 2.2 Kernel, so a physical error can be ruled > out. I already tried to get the card working with all stable 2.4 kernels, > some AC and some pre-ones. > > Here's the error message I get, when trying to do a ping: > eth1: Transmit timed out: status a090 0c00 at 28/58 command 0001a0000 > > I looked at the source in 2.2.18 and 2.4.1, when this message is printed > out and I couldn't find any significant difference (there also aren't any > changing #defines). > > What makes wondering some more is, that the same card works in any other > computer around here, so it must have something todo with 2.4 and > Proliants. > > Does anyone suffer from similar experiences or am I the only one? > >
