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Subject: RE: dell inspiron 8000 eepro100 problems
Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2001 17:21:46 -0500
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> i'm using 2.4.9 and have had a problem since 2.2
> kernels along with all versions of 2.4. i am having a
> problem with 2 laptops, both are dell inspiron 8000
> that have intel 82557 mini-pci nic in them. i get no

<Not official support>

Is the "sleep mode bit" set on the NIC?  Please try Donald Becker's
eepro100-diag.c program, located at
ftp://ftp.scyld.com/pub/diag/eepro100-diag.c, and use the -G -w -w -w flags
to clear that bit if running it first says that the sleep bit is enabled.
This may help.

Thanks,
Matt

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