Re: network problem (probably with eepro100) in 2.3.99-pre5?

From: Daniel Stone (tamriel@ductape.net)
Date: Sat May 06 2000 - 21:30:52 EDT

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    Andrey,
    I managed to get the EEPro100 back. It's the exact same card, the exact
    same problem, but now on pre7-6. It's sitting in eth1, with the ne2k-pci
    as eth0. The system boots fine as none of my rc scripts disturb
    eth1. ifconfig -a works fine, but don't try to change anything on eth1
    ... straight lock.

    Here's the boot message:
    eth1: Intel Corporation 82557 [Ethernet Pro 100], 00:90:27:58:89:F7, IRQ
    9.
      Reciever lock-up bug exists -- enabling work-around.
      Board assembly 721383-006, Physical connectors present: RJ45
      Primary interface chip i82555 PHY #1.
      General self-test: passed.
      Serial sub-system self-test: passed.
      Internal registers self-test: passed.
      ROM checksum self-test: passed (0x04f4518b).

    This motherboard doesn't support PnP, I statically allocated IRQ 9 in the
    BIOS. It's on Level/Auto. Devfs is also enabled.

    Take care,
    d

    On Fri, 28 Apr 2000, Andrey Savochkin wrote:

    > Daniel,
    >
    > On Wed, Apr 26, 2000 at 05:27:53AM -0500, Daniel Stone wrote:
    > > I'm using an Intel 82559 (EtherExpress PRO/100) and I'm experiencing a
    > > strange problem.
    > >
    > > I went into its setup (Ctrl-S at boot), and disabled its setup message as
    > > it was annoying me. I boot Linux with the EEPro PCI driver in for the
    > > first time, and BOOM, it hangs halfway through its initialisation. I go
    > > back, enable the setup message, and it works.
    > >
    > > But I have an rc script - ifconfig eth0 down, set its ip, back up. It hung
    > > when it got there. I booted into single mode, and found that even though
    > > it works, it froze on the first ifconfig.
    > >
    > > I'm now on a RealTek, and there were NO IRQ conflicts, the card was on IRQ
    > > 9, nothing else was using that, as I only have the video card (which has
    > > no IRQ) and that's it. It was assigned to IRQ 9 (my mobo doesn't do PnP,
    > > you assign PCI IRQs manually) and Edge/Auto - no IRQ sharing.
    > >
    > > Can anyone shed some light?
    >
    > During initialization eepro100 driver provides messages about the hardware
    > and the initialization process. They are usually stored in your log files by
    > klog/syslog system. Could you send me the messages for successful and
    > unsuccessful network startup of your system?
    >
    > Best regards
    > Andrey V.
    > Savochkin
    >

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