Hi all, The only problem I've had with my eepro100 is transmitter lockup's (kernel driver says so and then fixes it). I personally wouldn't buy one again.
Regards, Robert Davidson. On Fri, Feb 02, 2001 at 08:58:57PM -0800, Duane Powers wrote: > um, I'm sorry, I wasn't following the whole thread, but I am using > eepro100 cards almost exclusively on debian and redhat boxen... they > work great, even with 2.4 (starting at 2.4pre8) for about 5 months > now... I previously was using the boomerang/vortex 3com nic's, but had > reliability problems with them.... > > I would conclude (forgive my presumptions...) that for everyone who has > had problems with brand A, there is someone who swears by it, and vice > versa... Just my twocents. > > ~duane > > Vasil Kolev wrote: > > > 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? > >> > >> > > > > > > -- > > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
