At 09:47 AM 01/26/2001, Jim Sander wrote:
> > > Linux people avoid the EtherExpress because they think something is
> > > wrong with the card.
>
> > Intel EtherExpress Pro 10/100B cards in FreeBSD
>
> These cards work well in our many 3.x and 4.x systems.
>
> But I just built up a Redhat 6.2 box with one, and all seemed to be
>working fine, but after a while I started having various problems starting
>net services. The box would boot, but often would "hang" indefinitely when
>"Starting eth0" - requiring a hard reboot. I swapped to another EE-Pro
>NIC, new MB, different RAM, other cables, everything, but no change.
the eepro100 driver is badly broken in linux (havent you been paying
attention?).
it took me a few hours to fix it. They dont reset the card properly on an
overrun, which causes it to lock up. Clearly the driver as is is unusable
in a heavy use environment.
DB
> After I switched to a linksys NIC, voila- everything worked without a
>problem. (so far) Of course the Intel NICs still work perfectly when put
>into a spare BSD system. So it's *not* that the cards themselves are
>unreliable. Perhaps the drivers controlling them? Perhaps a weird MB/NIC
>conflict of some sort?
>
>-=Jim=-
>
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