Epic100 problems.

[Anthony Schlemmer]

I was unable to use the my SMC Etherpower II cards at 100 Tx with the
old 0.99B driver. When I first started using Linux with this NIC I had
to replace my 100BaseTx hub with a 10BaseT one. It wasn't until v1.03 of
the driver came out that I was able to put my 100BaseTx back into my
network. Right now I'm running with the v1.04 driver using a 2.0.36
kernel. I have compiled the v1.06 driver and had that running with a
2.0.35 kernel until I upgraded my Linux distribution. Unfortunately the
Linux distribution I use is shipping with the older v1.04 version of the
Epic100 driver than what is currently available from the CESDIS website. 

Tony

Nick Busigin wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 11 Mar 1999, Erich Reitz wrote:
> 
> > I have been using the epic100 driver previous to version 1.0 at which time I
> > was unable to run at 100 Tx FD due to Trasmit Timeout errors. I had to force
> > it to 10Mb.  Now at driver version 1.06 I am able to run at 100 but still
> > experience other problems.  The card is in a Linux 2.0.35 box running along
> > side a generic 10baseT NE2000 card (which never has any problems).
> 
> Erich,
> 
> I am using the epic100 driver and am running the 2.0.35 kernel and have no
> problems at all (I'm running at 100 MBit). I just checked and the version
> of the epic100 driver I'm running is:
> 
>      epic100.c:v0.99B 4/7/98
> 
> as taken from the kernel boot messages.  If you'd like, I can email you
> the v0.99B version of the driver for you to try.
> 
> Best regards,
>                                  Nick
> 
> P.S.  I had problems with this driver and a 2.0.37 kernel I was running
>       earlier on.  Since I got it to work after dropping back to the
>       2.0.35 kernel, I didn't bother pursuing the matter further.
>       Maybe I'll have to wrestle with this rascal again when I upgrade
>       to the 2.2.x series of kernels. ;-)  Right now it works like charm:
> 
> bash-2.01$ /sbin/ifconfig eth0
> 
> eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:E0:29:1C:2B:AF
>           inet addr:192.168.10.1  Bcast:192.168.10.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
>           UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>           RX packets:15693221 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>           TX packets:29800518 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>           Collisions:0
>           Interrupt:11 Base address:0xd400
> 
>       Thanks Donald!  Works great!
> 
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