Re: Sporadic eepro(10) RX problems after reboot

Till Straumann wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> This is about eepro [10 / 82595],  NOT eepro100.
> 
> Sporadically, after a reboot [Ctl-Alt-Del] etherboot would
> not seem to receive any packets; TX worked OK (i.e., dhcp
> reqs were seen on the wire).
> 
> Powering down for a few minutes remedied the problem.
> 
> It turns out that the RX buffer RAM was not initialized
> and if eepro_poll found a leftover packet header there
> it would get out of sync with the hardware.
> 
> Patch with detailed description attached.
> 
> NOTE: all versions of etherboot are affected
> 
> Regards
>  -- Till Straumann
> 
> PS: I'm not a subscriber. CC me if there are any questions

Thanks for the patch it has been committed to the cvs.  Can you test it 
again once yothe public cvs is updated.  The eepro is one card that I do 
not own.

Tim



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