Re: e100 driver

[moffe@amagerkollegiet.dk (Rasmus Bøg Hansen)]

David Gómez <david@pleyades.net> writes:

> Hi Scott,
>
>> > I reloaded again the e100 module with this parameter. Let's 
>> > see how it performs. Thanks for the advice ;)
>> > 
>> > I'll let you know if checksum errors doesn't show anymore.
>> 
>> There are several new reports of this problem, so we're trying to repro now...
>
> Indeed disabling hardware receive hecksums made the problem go away, it's been
> more that a day with no errors in my logs. If you want to know more about my
> hardware/software configuration, let me know.

I have had some of these too but never paid them any attention
(2.4.21-rc2).

I too tried disabling hardware checksums - now I don't see anything in
the logs...

00:0c.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corp. 82557/8/9 [Ethernet Pro 100] (rev 08)
        Subsystem: Intel Corp. EtherExpress PRO/100+ Management Adapter
        Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV+ VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
        Status: Cap+ 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
        Latency: 32 (2000ns min, 14000ns max), cache line size 08
        Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 11
        Region 0: Memory at d5000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
        Region 1: I/O ports at a000 [size=64]
        Region 2: Memory at d4800000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1M]
        Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 2
                Flags: PMEClk- DSI+ D1+ D2+ AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0+,D1+,D2+,D3hot+,D3cold+)
                Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=2 PME-
00: 86 80 29 12 17 00 90 02 08 00 00 02 08 20 00 00
10: 00 00 00 d5 01 a0 00 00 00 00 80 d4 00 00 00 00
20: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 86 80 0c 00
30: 00 00 00 00 dc 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0b 01 08 38

I disabled the PXE function on the boot rom using the DOS intel tool;
otherwise I haven't messed with the firmware.

/Rasmus

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