On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 02:54:22PM -0800, Joshua Uziel wrote: > 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.
doh. > 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. There is the so-called MigMac cards. I've got a couple for my SS20. I hacked a printk out of the driver that continuously spake that the link was down, when it wasn't, but other than that, they seem to work fine. > The HME is reliable for me on U1E systems once that patch is applied. a
