Problems with Network adapters with Intel 8255x Chipsets(Internal)

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SuSE Linux: Versions 6.1 to 6.2
This article refers to an older version of SuSE Linux. Therefore some of the informations given in this article may be outdated or the article may contain stale links.

Kernel: Versions 2.2.5 to 2.3.x

Symptom:

  
date hostname kernel: eth0: Transmit timed out: status 0050  0000 at 3122/3136 command 000c0000.
date hostname kernel: eth0: Trying to restart the transmitter...

Solution:

NEW!
The compiled modules and uncompiled sources of SuSE Linux 6.3 include two versions of the eepro100 driver; v1.09r2 (equivalent to v1.09r) as default and v1.06 as a fallback. As of Nov 17, 1999 v1.09r continues to be the most recent version published by the driver author (URL see below).

A few helpful URLs:

• ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/6.2/new1/newnet.rpm

  This package includes the compiled modules eepro100-new.o(v1.09r), pci-netif.o, and tulip-91m.o they are intended for use with the SuSE Linux 6.2 kernel v2.2.10. rpm will install them in /lib/modules/2.2.10/net.

  A driver update is easy...

  1. Install the package newnet.rpm
  2. In the file /etc/conf.modules exchange lines of the form

     alias ethN eepro100

     with

     alias ethN eepro100-new

  3. Run the command "depmod -a"
  4. Change to a Runlevel without Network support with the command "init 1", "init S", or, while in the X Window system, "/sbin/init.d/network stop".
  5. Unload the eepro100 module with "rmmod eepro100".
  6. Change back to a Runlevel with Network support with "init 2", "init 3", or under the X Window system "/sbin/init.d/network start" and "/sbin/init.d/route start"

• ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/kgw/6.2/eepro100-1.09r.tgz

  Here you'll find Sources for the modules eepro100-new.o and pci-netif.o in the newnet.rpm package intended for self-compilation for your own kernel.  Please read the README included in the archive.

• ftp://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/pub/linux/drivers/kern-2.3

  This directory on driver author Donald Becker's ftp Server includes the most recent original sources for the developer-driver.  For eepro100 you'll need the following files (as of Nov 17, 1999):

       eepro100.c
       k_compat.h
       pci-netif.c
       pci-netif.h
  

• http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/eepro100.html

  This is the homepage of Donald Becker's eepro100 driver.