NIC on Intel STL2 - bad work with eepro100 & e100

Andrey Nekrasov (andy@spylog.ru)
Fri, 4 Oct 2002 15:31:28 +0400


Hello.

1. Hardware:
Intel Server Board STL2.
Network: onboard NIC "Intel(R) 82559 single chip PCI LAN controller"

Software:
Linux kernel up-to version 2.4.20pre9 + arp hidden patch.

2. dmesg:

...
Intel(R) PRO/100 Network Driver - version 2.1.15-k1
Copyright (c) 2002 Intel Corporation

e100: hw init failed
e100: Failed to initialize, instance #0
...

3. cat /proc/pci

...
Bus 0, device 3, function 0:
Ethernet controller: Intel Corp. 82557/8/9 [Ethernet Pro 100] (rev 8).
IRQ 18.
Master Capable. Latency=66. Min Gnt=8.Max Lat=56.
Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xfb101000 [0xfb101fff].
I/O at 0x5400 [0x543f].
Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xfb000000 [0xfb0fffff].
...

ps. eepro100 driver work, but bad.

dmesg:
...
<4>eepro100.c:v1.09j-t 9/29/99 Donald Becker http://www.scyld.com/network/eepro100.html
<4>eepro100.c: $Revision: 1.36 $ 2000/11/17 Modified by Andrey V. Savochkin <saw@saw.sw.com.s
<6>eth0: OEM i82557/i82558 10/100 Ethernet, 00:D0:B7:B6:B2:8B, IRQ 18.
<6> Board assembly 000000-000, Physical connectors present: RJ45
<6> Primary interface chip i82555 PHY #1.
<6> General self-test: passed.
<6> Serial sub-system self-test: passed.
<6> Internal registers self-test: passed.
<6> ROM checksum self-test: passed (0x04f4518b).
...
...
eepro100: wait_for_cmd_done timeout!
eepro100: wait_for_cmd_done timeout!
eepro100: wait_for_cmd_done timeout!
eepro100: wait_for_cmd_done timeout!
eepro100: wait_for_cmd_done timeout!
eepro100: wait_for_cmd_done timeout!
...

And periodically freeze.

-- 
bye.
Andrey Nekrasov, SpyLOG.
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