I have had many problems with hme's under both Debian and OpenBSD. I have decided to just stick with 10Mb/s for my Ultra's.
I generally use the 501-2015 cards when I need to add more ethernet ports. (http://www.sunstuff.org/hardware/partnumbers/501/2/0/1/5/) shawn > > I have an Ultra1 running Debian 3 and it has gone through > 2.4.18 up to 2.4.20 kernels trying to resolve a problem with the > ethernet going down on Sun hme. > > In the 2.4.18 kernel I would get an error of : > Happy Status 03030000 TX[000003ff:000000301] > > That went away with 2.4.19 but it would still hang the ethernet > periodically. I tried debian stock and my own compiled kernel > with .20 and no better. I don't see any errors on the console, nothing > showing eth0 activity or errors in /var/log/messages at > the time it drops the connection. I have to reboot to get > it back up again (currently not a module). > > I tried ethtool to set the duplex to half and the speed to 10 > but that has only partially helped. I still have to reboot every > second day to get connected again. > > The failure seems to sync with events involving a burst of data, > such as nmap probing it from another machine, or scrolling > text very rapidly over an ssh session. > > Looking at the comments in sunhme.c of the kernel code, it looks > like the driver programmer had a frustrating experience. > > If HME ethernet isn't reliable, what SBUS alternatives are there which > will work well? I need an ethernet card for which there will be a > unique MAC address or I can set the address, to work with the DHCP > server at my work. > > --Donald Teed > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
