Re: Problem with SMC Etherpower II + kernel newer 2.4.2

[Olivier Sessink]

On  0, Florian Schmitt <[e-mail]> wrote:
> 
> > Does anybody else got these errors or knows about a solution for this ??
> 
> Same problem here, it won't run at all on newer kernels. But it isn't even 
> 100% stable in 2.2.x here - on very high network traffic the card stops 
> working. In this case, it helps to pull the network plug for a short time, 
> then everything goes back to normal. I reduced speed to 10MB, and now it is 
> stable at least in 2.2.x. 

I use (kernel 2.4.4 and 2.4.5) a cron script that pings, and will run 
ifdown eth0; ifup eth0
when the ping fails, this seems to be good enough to get it up and running
again, sometimes I need to reload the module, but it's indeed very annoying.

if ! ping -c 1 -n -q 192.168.100.2 ; then
	ifdown eth0
	ifup eth0
	if ! ping -c 1 -n -q 192.168.100.2 ; then
		ifdown eth0
		rmmod epic100
		insmod epic100
		ifup eth0
	fi
fi

regards,
	Olivier