Re: eepro100 - Linux vs. FreeBSD

2001-01-30 Thread Micah Gorrell
uot;Davide Libenzi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Micah Gorrell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Andrey Savochkin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Romain Kang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Craig I. Hagan" &

Re: eepro100 - Linux vs. FreeBSD

2001-01-30 Thread Davide Libenzi
On Tuesday 30 January 2001 08:14, Micah Gorrell wrote: > I have been running 2.2 on many machines since its release and have updated > to the latest version of 2.2 many times. All of these machines have an > eepro100 and I never saw a single problem with any of them. I updated most > of my machi

Re: eepro100 - Linux vs. FreeBSD

2001-01-30 Thread Micah Gorrell
- From: "Andrey Savochkin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Micah Gorrell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Romain Kang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Craig I. Hagan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tuesday, J

Re: eepro100 - Linux vs. FreeBSD

2001-01-29 Thread Andrey Savochkin
On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 11:06:11AM -0700, Micah Gorrell wrote: > As stated in a number of previous messages to this list many people have had > serious problems with the eepro100 driver in 2.4. These problems where not > there in 2.2 and it is not a select few machines showing this so I very much

Re: eepro100 - Linux vs. FreeBSD

2001-01-29 Thread Richard B. Johnson
On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, Sergey Kubushin wrote: > On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, Richard B. Johnson wrote: > > > Two of my Linux machines use the Intel Ethernet controller on the > > motherboard. These are both SMP machines. I have never, ever, had > > any problems with the eepro100 driver that handles these

Re: eepro100 - Linux vs. FreeBSD

2001-01-29 Thread Udo A. Steinberg
Sergey Kubushin wrote: > > The older chips (e.g. 82557) work fine. The problem arises when you have the > newer 82559's. They do work, however, if the power management for eepro100 > is enabled in kernel config. It definitely means that those chips are > underinitialized (or overinitialized :)) w

Re: eepro100 - Linux vs. FreeBSD

2001-01-29 Thread Micah Gorrell
aig I. Hagan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Romain Kang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Monday, January 29, 2001 10:50 AM Subject: Re: eepro100 - Linux vs. FreeBSD >On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, Craig I. Hagan wrote: > >> > One approach to the endl

Re: eepro100 - Linux vs. FreeBSD

2001-01-29 Thread Sergey Kubushin
On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, Richard B. Johnson wrote: > Two of my Linux machines use the Intel Ethernet controller on the > motherboard. These are both SMP machines. I have never, ever, had > any problems with the eepro100 driver that handles these chips. > > I spite of the fact that the driver loops in

Re: eepro100 - Linux vs. FreeBSD

2001-01-29 Thread Richard B. Johnson
On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, Craig I. Hagan wrote: > > One approach to the endless eepro100 headaches would be to port > > the FreeBSD if_fxp driver to Linux. After all, drivers have been > > ported between these OSs before; e.g., the aic7xxx SCSI adapter. > > However, I see no evidence that this has be

Re: eepro100 - Linux vs. FreeBSD

2001-01-29 Thread Craig I. Hagan
> One approach to the endless eepro100 headaches would be to port > the FreeBSD if_fxp driver to Linux. After all, drivers have been > ported between these OSs before; e.g., the aic7xxx SCSI adapter. > However, I see no evidence that this has been attempted. Can > someone tell me what I'm obviou