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Re: Recommended NIC module



On Sun, 10 Jan 2010, Camaleón wrote:

On Sun, 10 Jan 2010 12:21:37 -0600, Stan Hoeppner wrote:

Camaleón put forth on 1/10/2010 12:07 PM:
On Sun, 10 Jan 2010 02:31:20 +0100, Mathias wrote:

Which module would you guys (or gals :) recommend for this NIC, the
e100 or the eepro100?

00:02.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82557/8/9/0/1 Ethernet
Pro 100 (rev 08)

I would use the module the kernel detects and automatically loads and
if no problem arises, I'll keep that one O:-)

If the kernel is auto detecting the device and loading a driver, and the
device works properly, it makes one wonder why the OP posted his
question here in the first place...

Yes, that is a good question that was not properly addressed.

@OP: Mathias, can you specify what kind of errors are you experiencing
with *any* of the drivers? Detection issues, package drop/lost issues,
connection problems, intermittent errors, system locks...?


Well, I kinda just did, in the previous post/mail. But if you want I can describe it. It's a Serverworks III LE machine with the NIC on the motherboard, and a long time ago I installed what was lenny/sid back then, I think. Had some problems with it, but nothing major, then with a recent upgrade it stopped working, and new kernels wouldn't work either, just re-boot/reset. So now I have managed to install stable/lenny on it, from
scratch. I saved all the data, home and etc on another disc for later use.
I guess I'll use e100 from now on, but back then when it was not working
properly, the e100 was installed with the default kernel. Yesterday I complied my own kernel so now I'm doing the finishing touches on the system. This server is a SMP/Dual P3 with 768MB RAM and will be used as a ftp, ssh, apache (very little, mysql and a few others.

Let me know if you need more info. ;)

Mat

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