From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 30 Jan 2001 10:15:56 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 30 Jan 2001 10:15:37 -0500 Received: from mail.myrealbox.com ([192.108.102.201]:11934 "EHLO myrealbox.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 30 Jan 2001 10:15:30 -0500 Message-ID: <003001c08acf$7ae475f0$9b2f4189@angelw2k> From: "Micah Gorrell" To: "Andrey Savochkin" Cc: "Romain Kang" , , , "Craig I. Hagan" Subject: Re: eepro100 - Linux vs. FreeBSD Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 08:15:21 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3612.1700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.3018.1300 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org I have been running 2.2 on many machines since its release and have updated to the latest version of 2.2 many times. All of these machines have an eepro100 and I never saw a single problem with any of them. I updated most of my machines to 2.4 over the course of a week and within a day of updating each of them showed the problem. This may be pure chance but it sounds to me as if it is a difference with the 2.4 kernel. Micah ___ The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the world -----Original Message----- From: "Andrey Savochkin" To: "Micah Gorrell" Cc: "Romain Kang" ; ; ; "Craig I. Hagan" Date: Tuesday, January 30, 2001 12:35 AM Subject: Re: eepro100 - Linux vs. FreeBSD >On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 11:06:11AM -0700, Micah Gorrell wrote: >> As stated in a number of previous messages to this list many people have had >> serious problems with the eepro100 driver in 2.4. These problems where not >> there in 2.2 and it is not a select few machines showing this so I very much >> doubt that it is a configuration problem. I assume that the intel driver >> would prolly fix all of these issues but its not ready for 2.4 yet and its >[snip] > >In the first place, the "no resource" problem is a hardware one. >As far as I understand, it's a buggy (or undocumented) timing requirement >for some revisions. >This problem showed with any kernel, 2.2 or 2.4, until a workaround was >developed. On a single computer suffering from that problem it showed not on >every boot, but about in 30 percents. That's why the reports were different. >So, the kernel version is irrelevant to this problem. > >Best regards > Andrey V. > Savochkin > > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/