Re: eepro100 - Linux vs. FreeBSD

[Micah Gorrell]

I have been running 2.2 on many machines since its release and have updated
to the latest version of 2.2 many times.  All of these machines have an
eepro100 and I never saw a single problem with any of them.  I updated most
of my machines to 2.4 over the course of a week and within a day of updating
each of them showed the problem.  This may be pure chance but it sounds to
me as if it is a difference with the 2.4 kernel.

Micah
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-----Original Message-----
From: "Andrey Savochkin" <[e-mail]>
To: "Micah Gorrell" <[e-mail]>
Cc: "Romain Kang" <[e-mail]>;
<[e-mail]>; <[e-mail]>; "Craig I. Hagan"
<[e-mail]>
Date: Tuesday, January 30, 2001 12:35 AM
Subject: Re: eepro100 - Linux vs. FreeBSD

>On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 11:06:11AM -0700, Micah Gorrell wrote:
>> As stated in a number of previous messages to this list many people have
had
>> serious problems with the eepro100 driver in 2.4.  These problems where
not
>> there in 2.2 and it is not a select few machines showing this so I very
much
>> doubt that it is a configuration problem.  I assume that the intel driver
>> would prolly fix all of these issues but its not ready for 2.4 yet and
its
>[snip]
>
>In the first place, the "no resource" problem is a hardware one.
>As far as I understand, it's a buggy (or undocumented) timing requirement
>for some revisions.
>This problem showed with any kernel, 2.2 or 2.4, until a workaround was
>developed.  On a single computer suffering from that problem it showed not
on
>every boot, but about in 30 percents.  That's why the reports were
different.
>So, the kernel version is irrelevant to this problem.
>
>Best regards
> Andrey V.
> Savochkin
>
>