[eepro100] eepro and nfs file handle

[Donald Becker]

On Wed, 6 Nov 2002, Traylen, SM (Steve)  wrote:

> >>  I have a problem which I have after a lot if investigation
> >>  have narrowed down to the combination of eepro100 cards
> >>  and particular group of boxes I have. 
> 
> >What driver version?
> >What is the detection message?
..
> So its a 2.2.19 kernel from redhat on a rh6.2 box.
> This appears to have been built with a eepro.c that has
> "eepro100.c:v1.09j-t 9/29/99,
> though the last modification appears to be
> 
> 2000 Nov 15 , Changed command completion time and added debug info, ...

This is a modified driver, starting from a three year old version.
You should ask the people that modified the driver for support.

[[ Of course, they are not around any more.  It's far easier to patch
once and take credit, than to stay around fix the bugs the patched
version introduces or fails to solve. ]]

> [root@gppce06 /root]# ./eepro100-diag -f -a

1. Run eepro100-diag -ee
2. Use

mkdir /tmp/netdrivers/
cd /tmp/netdrivers/
ncftp ftp://ftp.scyld.com/pub/network/netdrivers.tgz
tar xfvz netdrivers.tgz
make
make install


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