Re: [eepro100-bug] PC with Intel D845BG motherboard hangs up
Donald Becker <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.drivers.eepro100.devel |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
On Fri, 12 Jul 2002, H&G wrote: > I recently bought a vpr Matrix 2020 PC. It has an Intel D845BG motherboard > (i845D chipset) with an onboard 82562 NIC. It runs Red Hat 7.3. > When booting, the message "network: Bringing up interface eth0" seems fine > (I subscribed to a DSL access with Qwest+MSN, don't blame me !) > But after a while, the whole system hangs up and the only thing I can > do is to restart the machine. It took me a long time to came to that > conclusion, but now I'm quite sure that the problem was related to the > "eepro100" driver included in the 2.4.18-5 Red Hat kernel. ... > this problem by using the Intel "e100" driver. > So I did the same and now everything works fine. ... > And if it's a "eepro100" related problem, what can I do to help? Try the driver set from ftp://ftp.scyld.com/pub/network/netdrivers.tgz > Will the final 2.4.19 kernel include a "eepro100" driver that fully > support the 82562 NIC? I would really prefer to use the GPL'd driver > rather than the proprietary Intel driver... -- Donald Becker [email protected] Scyld Computing Corporation http://www.scyld.com 410 Severn Ave. Suite 210 Second Generation Beowulf Clusters Annapolis MD 21403 410-990-9993