You both need to use the patch at http://sparclinux.net/pub/patches/U1-hme-lockup.patch
* Shawn Wallbridge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030314 11:28]: > 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. Things are fine for me on all my machines without that patch and on the Ultra 1s with that patch. > > Looking at the comments in sunhme.c of the kernel code, it looks > > like the driver programmer had a frustrating experience. ROFL! That's standard for Dave Miller's code... read through some of the comments in arch/sparc/ and arch/sparc64/ for some laughs sometime. :) > > 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. The HME is reliable for me on U1E systems once that patch is applied.
