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Yedidyah Bar-David wrote:
| Hi all, | | Please excuse the offtopicness. | | On an Intel d815eea with an onboard e100 NIC, using the e100 driver | sometimes looses packets and causes retransmissions, whereas | eepro100 works fine. This is on 2.4.26. Up until 2.4.24 I used | eepro100, which was fine, and in 2.4.25 I moved to e100, which | caused problems, that's why I now tried them both. lspci says: | Intel Corp. 82801BA/BAM/CA/CAM Ethernet Controller (rev 01) I also | tried insmoding e100 with ucode=0, which is supposed to disable the | "CPU Cycle Saver". It did not help. | | On an Intel D845GEBV2 e100 works fine. lspci: Intel Corp. 82801BD | PRO/100 VE (LOM) Ethernet Controller (rev 82) | | Searching google does not give conclusive results - some people are | happy with both, some with one, some with the other. | | 1. Does anyone have any experience with them? Which one is | recommended? 2. Should I report this? Where? | | Thanks,
My experience with the modules is this: at my work i have many computers using this chipset. i generally prefer the eepro100 module as it's part of the kernel, and not a 3rd party module. (also, the eepro100 has more featuers, like mii support - - but for me it's not useful) the problem with the eepro100 is that it's not stable in bad network situations. it can even get the machine hang. until the network equipment in my work place was upgraded to some good 100MBps switches, we had to use the e100 driver. after the upgrade we returned to the eepro100. (and also upgraded the linux distro (and kernel))
lately i started to think about moving back to the e100 driver. i have a feeling it might solve some misterious problems i can't understand nor trace.
buttom line - the e100 driver was written by intel and made public to the community, the eepro100 was written by our beloved open-source community. (so, what am i saying? actually nothing.)
just my 1.5 cents, Noam
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