Re: eepro100 problems in 2.4.0

[Sergey Kubushin]

On Thu, 25 Jan 2001, Micah Gorrell wrote:

I do have such a problem with the machines that have only one eepro100 nic.

> Because of the problems we where having we are no longer using the
> machine
> with 3 nics.  We are now using a machine with just one and it is going
> live
> next week.  We do need kernel 2.4 because of the process limits in 2.2.
> Does the 'Enable Power Management (EXPERIMENTAL)' option fix the no
> resources problems?
>
> Micah
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> system
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: "Tom Sightler" <[e-mail]>
> To: "Micah Gorrell" <[e-mail]>;
> <[e-mail]>
> Date: Thursday, January 25, 2001 1:48 PM
> Subject: Re: eepro100 problems in 2.4.0
>
>
> > > I have doing some testing with kernel 2.4 and I have had constant
> >problems
> >> with the eepro100 driver.  Under 2.2 it works perfectly but under
> 2.4 I
> am
> >> unable to use more than one card in a server and when I do use one
> card I
> >> get errors stating that eth0 reports no recources.  Has anyone else
> seen
> >> this kind of problem?
> >
> >I had a similar problem with a server that had dual embedded eepro100
> >adapters however selecting the 'Enable Power Management
> (EXPERIMENTAL)'
> >option for the eepro100 seemed to make the problem go away.  I don't
> really
> >know why but it might be worth trying if it wasn't already selected.
> >
> >Later,
> >Tom
> >
> >
> >
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