Re: [ECOS] i82559 driver: i82557 support?

[Gary Thomas <gthomas at ecoscentric dot com>]

On Wed, 2002-11-13 at 13:03, Kevin Hilman wrote:
> In the Intel i82559 driver, there's the following note
> 
>         FIXME: For 82557/8 compatibility i82559_configure() function
>                probably needs some tweaking - config bits differ
>                slightly but crucially.
> 
> I'm using an 82557 card which mostly works, but ping_test runs
> correctly about 10% of the time, and the rest of the time, I'm getting
> timeouts during the DHCP request phase.
> 

Have you watched the network activity to see more of what's happening
"on the wire"?

> Could this possibly be related to config bits on the NIC?  If so,
> could someone point me in the right direction as far as docs or spec
> sheets which describe the differences between the config bits on the
> two NICs.

I actually think the comments are a bit out of date (it happens).
This driver has been used extensively by other customers with 82557
with no troubles.

Sadly, the information referred to can only be obtained under
NDA from Intel (or at least this was the case last I heard).

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