Andreas Schwab wrote:
Michael Heiming <michael@heiming.de> writes:
|> having problems with HP rx4610 server and the built-in NIC, lspci |> reports it as: |> Intel Corporation 82557 Ethernet Pro 100 (rev 08) |> |> Using the eepro100.o module and the 2.4.4 SMP Kernel that came with |> SuSE 7.2/ia64, the network isn't working at all, until I switch the |> NIC to promiscuous mode, then a few packets will work in both |> directions and tcpdump crashes with SEGMENTATION fault.
Could you please try out if the e100 module works better?
Compiling the latest e100.c (I could find) from Intel and using 'insmod e100 e100_speed_duplex=4', to force 100Mbit-FD works like a charm. ftp transfer > 11 Mbit/sec in both directions, with not a single error shown by netstat/ifconfig...;-) Thx Michael Heiming