Re: Bug#280839: kernel-image-2.6.8-1-686: eepro100 hangs and restarts
On Fri, Nov 12, 2004 at 12:16:45AM -0500, Andres Salomon wrote:
> On Thu, 11 Nov 2004 23:11:16 +0000, Greg Kochanski wrote:
>
> > Package: kernel-image-2.6.8-1-686
> > Version: 2.6.8-4
> > Severity: important
> >
> > The eepro100 ethernet driver intermittently hangs,
> > and then restarts. Replacing it with e100 solves
> > the problem.
> >
> > rmmod eepro100
> > modprobe e100
> >
> > Unfortunately, I have to do that manually with each reboot.
> >
>
> Are there actually any instances where eepro100 is actually preferred over
> e100? I'm thinking that we should probably disable eepro100, or figure
> out a way to force e100 in place of eepro100. Granted, that's probably
> something discover/hotplug should already be doing, but for people who've
> hardcoded eepro100 into /etc/modules or something...
Presumably there are some corner cases, but the last time I
saw a post on this from Jeff Garzik his position was that
eepro100 should be removed and if there are problems with
e100 they should be fixed. I don't think there have been
any particularly strong objections or problems brought forward.
As for loading e100 instead of eepro100, isn't this just a matter
of setting up an alias for modutils. Or at worst a symlink somewhere.
Personally I would be infavour of doing neigther. But I could be swayed.
--
Horms
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