> Letting the chips fall where they may, I quote James R. Leu:
> >> Is there support in Linux for the Intel Pro/100B EtherExpress based on
> >> the 82557 chipset? I can't find any documentation on it at all.
> >
> >Yes, but it is not main stream yet.
> >
> >Check out:
> >http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/eepro100.html
>
> And rightly so... I don't recommend using the driver in an unsupervised
> environment until it has been proven stable for you. I have one in my machine
> here at work that has worked perfectly from day one. I have two more just
> like it (and two of the newer ones with the Rev. A chip) and they both have the
> odd -- and often deadly -- habit of sometimes blindly retransmitting the TX
> ring. You'll be surprised how fast that thing can push packets on the wire :-)
> [If I let it run free in such cases, it will "capture" a Cisco 7000 from a fast
> ethernet port.]
I had lots of problems with the eepro100 drivers. All of them vanished
when I compiled the kernel with CONFIG_MULTICAST. You compile your kernels
without CONFIG_MULTICAST and the driver works fine (this was two months
ago, haven't followed the newer eepro100 driver development)
-Andi