Ethernet card problems on PPC

[Mike Fedyk <mfedyk@matchmail.com>]

Hi,

I have been bitten with problems trying ethernet cards that work find in x86
but terribly on ppc.

eepro100 - causes kernel to hard crash with no output

pcnet32/lance - causes kernel to oops

rtl8139/8139too - works for a couple hours, then silently (rtl8139) or
   reports interrupt error (8139too)
   
tulip, and 3c9x both work reliably on ppc.

I'd like to work with anyone that has patches for any of these problems, and
help them test it.  I don't know if I should post something like this to
LKML, so I'm starting here.

All of these tests were done on 7200s and g3 beige with bootx from macos8.5 to linux
2.2.17/18/18pre21

If you have a 7200 who's mace has "lost control word" on ip address set, trash it, or
stop using that ethernet port.  It will hold the address after
6x(up,down,up), but will fail under load.

Mike