Brandeburg, Jesse wrote:
Roberto Nibali wrote:
Sounds sane to me. My overall opinion on eepro100 removal is that
we're not there yet. Rare problem cases remain where e100 fails
but eepro100 works, and it's older drivers so its low priority for
everybody.
Needs to happen, though...
It seems that several Tyan Opteron base system that were using IPMI
add on card. the IPMI card share intel 100Mhz nic onboard. you need
to use eepro100 instead of e100 otherwise the e100 will shutdown OOB
(out of Band) connection for IPMI when shut down the OS.
I find it hard to believe that something as common as IPMI in
conjunction with the IPMI technology wasn't tested in Intel's lab.
From my experience with Intel Server boards, onboard IPMI (all offered
versions) and e100/e1000 NICs, I've never ever experienced any
problems operating the BMC over the NIC. Also, I don't quite
understand you point about the "IPMI card sharing the 100Mbit/s NIC"
onboard? What exactly is shared?
It's a legit problem, but only with this *one* system.
Of course the eepro100 driver is not taking a lot of maintenance either,
removing it is not critical as long as there is a legitimate need to
support old hardware.
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bill davidsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
CTO TMR Associates, Inc
Doing interesting things with small computers since 1979
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