On Wed, 2002-05-29 at 21:41, Ben Lutgens wrote: > On Wed, May 29, 2002 at 08:38:43PM -0500, Perry Hoekstra wrote: > >I have had problems with the eepro100 drivers and RedHat, both 7.2 and > >7.3 on my workstation at work. In my case, the network connection would > >croak under load (anything over 2 MB). I search around on Google and it > >seems I was not the only one. I bagged the eepro100 driver and went with > >the e100 and everything is fine now. > > It's not the driver that's broken, it's the fact that intel in it's > infinite wisdom made about 1000 differnet chips and put the same number on > them. The only way to really identify the chips is via the registers. As > such the drivers sorta work, and they're _almost_ there, but not quite. > It's a real drag. > > I've all but abandoned buying any nics with intel chips (save the onboard > ones, for some reason nearly every server class motherboard you buy has 2 > on board eepro100s.... Hey, I was ecstatic that my client let me blow away the Win2K and install Linux. I wasn't about to turn around and state that the onboard NIC was junk. -- Perry Hoekstra E-Commerce Architect Talent Software Services perry.hoekstra at talentemail.com