Re: [Etherboot-users] epic100 problem

[Zanikolas S. <se...@it...>]

On Tue, 8 Aug 2000, Ken Yap wrote:

> >	OOPS, Something wrong with transmitter. status=2003
> >
> One thing I can suggest is it's some kind of timing problem, perhaps the
> driver isn't waiting long enough for some operations.  Another thing to
> check is the PCI config in the BIOS, it's possible that the PCI bus
> latency is set too low on your motherboard. There is code in eepro100.c
> to adjust this to 32 clocks so it seems to matter for some NICs. I don't
> have this NIC so could you also please contact the author of the driver.
> Other than that, you'd could try to debug this yourself, armed with a
> datasheet for the Ethernet controller chip. Maybe also look at the Linux
> driver to see if there are any places where timing is important.

	Thanks for the tips, I'll check it out and reply... 

serafim