intel etherpro 100 problems

[Donald Becker]

On Fri, 4 May 2001, Kim Branson wrote:

> I've been having some problems with intel etherpro 100 cards on my
> cluster. 
> 
> the nodes are 1ghz athlons 64meg pc133 on a asus a7pro mb. ibm 10.2 gig
> drives
> 
> after a reboot of the nodes, and sometimes during a run the card reports
> no rx buffers or resources.

This is caused by timing bugs in the 82559 chip.  We didn't see the same
problems with 82557 chips.

> eepro100.c:v1.09j-t 9/29/99 Donald Becker
> http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/eepro100.html
> May  3 19:47:50 node04 kernel: eepro100.c: $Revision: 1.20.2.10 $
> 2000/05/31 Modified by Andrey V. Savochkin <saw at saw.sw.com.sg> and others

You should try a different driver.  This is a modification of a very
old driver version, as should be obvious by the long-obsolete URL.
The current URL is
  http://www.scyld.com/network/eepro100.html

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