On Tue, May 11, 2004 at 11:10:41AM +0300, Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote: > > > FYI, > > A LOT of the problems people report to have with eepro100 chipset cards is due > to a bug in the hardware that causes the PCI bus to hang when the "sleep > mode" feature is enabled in the card's EEPROM. > > Newer versions of the eepro100 driver from Donald Becker actually check for > this feature being enabled in the card EEPROM and warn the user and you can > use Mr. Becker's eepro100-diag program to turn it off. > > I have been using cards with these chipsets with the Becker (eepro100) > supplied driver for aq long time and have not seen any problem AFTER > disabling the "sleep mode" feature. Without doing this I did experience > sudden card hangs.
Even not after waiting some time for the sleep to activate? In any case, I usually disable power management in the BIOS for public machines, and this wasn't my problem. > > Finding the eepro100_diag program is alittle trick right now, as the Scyld web > site is undergoing some sort of mutiotion and the source isn't accessible, > but you can find by googling for eepro100_diag.c You can find it in debian, in the package nictools-pci. Many debian mirrors also mirror the sources, if you need them. Thanks, -- Didi ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
