| Laptop Sat pro 4600, Intel
integrated NIC, kernels 2.2.{19,20}
eepro100 = slow traffic (http) seems
fine, but transferring iso images
or rsyncing directories leads to warning
messages, many errors and high
collision rate.
Switching to Intel e100 module suppress
*all* problems.
Tested at home with a direct/twisted
wire toward a 3com 509B eth10,
at work through hub & switch eth10
& 100.
Now an Etherexpress 100 NIC is also installed
on my desktop,
full speed/full duplex OK between the
two e100, with no errors.
(not yet tested with eepro100).
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| FWIW:
thanks to everyone who suggested using the
e100 driver rather than eepro100. It does
appear to be more reliable for me (and perhaps
faster too). Note that the hangs with eepro100
only seem to occur with *certain* connections
- some office jacks but not others, and
my cable modem - and usually only after
intense blocks of network traffic. I noticed
with the cable modem that a hang could be
reset reliably by renewing a DHCP lease.
For any readers with the same
problem: on RHL 7.2 it seems sufficient
to edit /etc/modules.conf to read
alias eth0 e100
rather than
alias eth0 eepro100
and for one-off testing,
use rmmod/insmod.
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