Kevin Wood wrote:
>
> Has anyone else been having problems with the Intel eepro100 embedded
> NICs? I have a few customers that have been complaining of drop-outs
> with these cards and it seems to be caused by the 2.2.16 (definite I've
> seen it myself) and the 2.2.14 (just heard this one) kernels. I also
> had one customer try the latest and greatest driver available and 2.4
> and he said that it seems to be causing the same problems if not
> worsening them. Anybody experience this and possibly know a fix? Any
> help would help millions (ego trip comment...) Thanks
Go here:
http://www.scyld.com/network/
(the new home of Donald Becker's drivers and stuff)
and check out the diagnostic stuff. I don't think Donald wrote the
eepro driver, but there's tons of good info there on 100Mbps ethernet,
gigabit, troubleshooting, etc, on most ISA and PCI cards (and pcmcia
too). There are updated drivers for many chipsets/cards, as well as
linux diagnostic utilities. Not all drivers have been updated in all
distributions, and none (that I know of) ship with these utilities.
Many of them can even replace the DOS setup software.
I just went through this with my (sort of) new Dell box at work. I
wiped windoze and installed RH6.1 and soon discovered that my 3c905c
(tornado) card was only giving me about 400k/sec connected to a 100Mbps
switch. The switch is a cheap one, which may not auto-negotiate
properly, but when I grabbed the diag utils from the above site, and
forced the card to 100FDx, I finally got my 6M/sec throughput.
Apparently the kernel version may affect this stuff too (depending on
the particular driver in question). I'd stick with the latest stable
kernel that works, but don't give up until you've tried this.
Everyone with a NIC in their Linux box (or even thinking about it)
should bookmark this site! Sorry, but that's the fourth or fifth time
this week I've posted this stuff (but not all to this list).
Steve
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