Re: eepro100.c bug on 10Mbit half duplex (kernels 2.4.5 / 2.4.10 /

Ion Badulescu (ion@cs.columbia.edu)
Fri, 12 Oct 2001 09:40:40 -0400 (EDT)


On Fri, 12 Oct 2001, Robbert Kouprie wrote:

> Mine says rev 9 :)
>
> radium:/# lspci -v -d 8086:1229
> 00:0d.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82557 [Ethernet Pro 100]
> (rev 09)
> Subsystem: Intel Corporation: Unknown device 0011
> Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 17
> Memory at da020000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
> I/O ports at c800 [size=64]
> Memory at da000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=128K]
> Expansion ROM at <unassigned> [disabled] [size=1M]
> Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 2

That's an 82559ER step A.

> > eth0: OEM i82557/i82558 10/100 Ethernet, DE:AD:BA:BE:CA:FE, IRQ 10.
> > Receiver lock-up bug exists -- enabling work-around.
> > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
> My card DOES NOT have the receiver lock-up bug

Your card's eeprom claims otherwise. The eeprom is most likely wrong, but
again, the workaround for *this* bug is pretty harmless, whether the bug
exists or not.

Ion

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