Re: eepro100: wait_for_cmd_done timeout (2.4.19-pre2/8)

[Samuel Maftoul <maftoul@esrf.fr>]

On Tue, May 07, 2002 at 05:12:21PM +0200, Mickael Bailly wrote:
> 	Hi,
> 
> We got the same problem with PCI eepro NICs (not onboard) on Dell Poweredge.
I'm on dell's also but not only poweredge
> We got the same error messages
> We tried the alternative 'e100' driver, but without success.
We also did but we get  approximatively with the same message ( no
really the same, but one talking about timeouts)
> We tried on 2.2 kernels (RedHat 6.2), then on 2.4 (RedHat 7.1/7.2): problem 
> still exist.
I didn't tried 2.2
> 
> At last we disabled APIC ( configuration line 'append=noapic' in your 
> lilo.conf configuration file )
I did also but my problem with firewire still exists 
That's the first thing I did, disableapic and noapic ( it's an smp
system so I have no idea what the consequences of this are )

> 
> Now it's working fine since 2 days... need a little more time to validate the 
> change...
> 
> See you
> Mickael
> 
Thanks for the tip.
        Sam