On Fri, Aug 06, 2004 at 02:12:42PM +0200, Jure Pe??ar wrote: > > is anyone using e1000 gigabit nic on alphas? > > For me it works well on 1000a running 2.6.7, with one problem: Whenever i > reboot my box witout powering it down, i get the "probe failed with error > -5" from e1000 module. > > Googling shows that this problem is also common on pc hardware at suspend > time, so i'd suspect something is not being properly reset on hw > initialisation.
I'm using one on a 2.4.23 kernel. I haven't noticed a problem after a reboot but I have the e1000 driver compiled into the kernel and I rarely reboot. -greg
