Re: Eepro100 on 2.0.x and 2.2.x

From: Admin Mailing Lists (mlist@intergrafix.net)
Date: Tue Feb 22 2000 - 12:00:36 EST


oh, btw, that was running SMP with 2 PPro 200s, sorry.

-Cygnus

On Tue, 22 Feb 2000, Admin Mailing Lists wrote:

>
> while we're throwing in our $.02
> I just had my transmitter go loopy on my box forcing me to reboot.
>
> I'm running 2.2.13 with libc 5.4.46-2, aic7xxx (7880 onboard), on an Intel
> Providence PR440FX motherboard.
> The system was up for 60 days without
> incident before this little fit.
> This is the first time i've seen it happen on a 2.2 system (I have 5 up,
> mixed .10/.12/.13's)
> No unusual traffic spikes occured around the time of occurence, traffic
> was around 30kB/s.
>
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> On 21 Feb 2000, Camm Maguire wrote:
>
> > Greetings! I've mentioned this in an earlier post as well, but if
> > you're looking for a data point in debugging, we have *no* problems
> > from these cards on a 16 node PII 350 Beowulf under 2.2.12. Run
> > simulations for days successfully. Of course, I also have an interest
> > in this driver's stability, so I'd appreciate any definitive bug
> > reports you may uncover.
> >
> > Take care,
> >
> > Lawrence Manning <lawrence@aslak.demon.co.uk> writes:
> >
> > > On Sun, 20 Feb 2000, Savochkin Andrey Vladimirovich wrote:
> > >
> > > > Lawrence,
> > > >
> > > > Could you be more verbose about your problems with the driver?
> > > > It may help :-)
> > >
> > > Hi Savochkin,
> > >
> > > I didn't want to repeat my experiences because they seem to be exactly the
> > > same as everyone else has been having. Namely the eepro100 stalls with
> > > "Trying reset the transmitter" message under a bit of load. I should say
> > > the last time I tried the eepro driver with a 2.2 kernel was 2.2.12 or so,
> > > so I was hoping the problems were fixed now...
> > >
> > > I don't even have any 2.2 boxes with those network cards, though there is
> > > a high possibility I will have a couple soon, and its more then likley I
> > > will need to stick eepro100s in them... hence me being interested in the
> > > health of the driver :) It also seemed weird how it works well under 2.0
> > > (like I said, 2 years and not 1 hicup) but under 2.2 it has that lockup
> > > problem.. but I might have a clue to that - thanks to Jeff Garzik. :)
> > >
> > > I know the driver has been hacked at lately ;) so I will try to do more
> > > testing ASAP.
> > >
> > > Lawrence
> > >
> > >
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