RE: eepro100.c bug on 10Mbit half duplex (kernels 2.4.5 / 2.4.10 / 2.4.11pre6 / 2.4.11 / 2.4.10ac11)

[Robbert Kouprie]

I assume that should print out a message at bootup? That didn't happen:

Oct  7 18:29:18 radium eepro100.c:v1.09j-t 9/29/99 Donald Becker
http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/eepro100.html
Oct  7 18:29:18 radium eepro100.c: $Revision: 1.36 $ 2000/11/17 Modified
by Andrey V. Savochkin <[e-mail]> and others
Oct  7 18:29:18 radium eth0: OEM i82557/i82558 10/100 Ethernet,
00:D0:B7:E8:A2:02, IRQ 17.
Oct  7 18:29:18 radium Board assembly 749658-005, Physical connectors
present: RJ45
Oct  7 18:29:18 radium Primary interface chip i82555 PHY #1.
Oct  7 18:29:18 radium General self-test: passed.
Oct  7 18:29:18 radium Serial sub-system self-test: passed.
Oct  7 18:29:18 radium Internal registers self-test: passed.
Oct  7 18:29:18 radium ROM checksum self-test: passed (0xdbd8681d).

- Robbert

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alan Cox [mailto:[e-mail]] 
> Sent: donderdag 11 oktober 2001 19:16
> To: Robbert Kouprie
> Cc: 'John Gluck'; [e-mail]
> Subject: Re: eepro100.c bug on 10Mbit half duplex (kernels 
> 2.4.5 / 2.4.10 / 2.4.11pre6 / 2.4.11 / 2.4.10ac11)
> 
> 
> > files. It would always lockup after said amount of traffic, 
> but only in
> > 10 Mbit half duplex mode. Also, I have the 82557, not the 
> 82558 chip.
> > 
> > The problem looks a lot like what should be fixed in this 
> changelog line
> > from 2.4.9-ac13:
> 
> Check the workaround is being activated for your eepro100..
>