Re: Happy Meal Ethernet - hme on Ultra1 not reliable
You both need to use the patch at
http://sparclinux.net/pub/patches/U1-hme-lockup.patch
* Shawn Wallbridge <shawn@synack-hosting.com> [030314 11:28]:
> I have had many problems with hme's under both Debian and OpenBSD. I have
> decided to just stick with 10Mb/s for my Ultra's.
Things are fine for me on all my machines without that patch and on the
Ultra 1s with that patch.
> > Looking at the comments in sunhme.c of the kernel code, it looks
> > like the driver programmer had a frustrating experience.
ROFL! That's standard for Dave Miller's code... read through some of
the comments in arch/sparc/ and arch/sparc64/ for some laughs sometime.
:)
> > If HME ethernet isn't reliable, what SBUS alternatives are there which
> > will work well? I need an ethernet card for which there will be a
> > unique MAC address or I can set the address, to work with the DHCP
> > server at my work.
The HME is reliable for me on U1E systems once that patch is applied.
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