Bug 73847 - Kickstart FTP install fails with Compaq Deskpro EN (eepro100)
Summary: Kickstart FTP install fails with Compaq Deskpro EN (eepro100)
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: kernel
Version: 7.2
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Arjan van de Ven
QA Contact: Brock Organ
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Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2002-09-12 05:01 UTC by James Hine
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:46 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Last Closed: 2003-06-09 13:14:04 UTC
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Description James Hine 2002-09-12 05:01:48 UTC
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Description of problem:
During an FTP kickstart installation, the eepro100 driver will fail (timeout) 
causing the installation to time out (error message displayed on TTY4 and 5) 
is "eepro100: wait_for_cmd_done timeout!"

The occurence of this fault appears to occur during periods of low network 
utilization.  Both the FTP and client systems reside in seperate VLAN's within 
a fully switched network and auto-negotiate to 100TxFD.  When the FTP server is 
under load, the problem is not reproducable, however it is not specific to a 
single client system - the issue has occured across 4 different Deskpro EN 
systems. 

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
This works in our office

1. Wait for quiet network (after business hours)
2. Start install
3. Wait for it to fail. ;)
	

Actual Results:  Had to restart the installation.

Additional info:

Client:
Compaq DP EN SFF 1.0 Ghz 512mb RAM.
Boot image floppy.

Server:
M$ FTP server.

Other stuff: 

Will sometime recover after 15-30 minutes, and install will complete. 

Have looked around the tty2 while it is failing, it will not ping any known to 
be good IP addresses.  

Poked around the /proc system and could not see anything untoward.

Comment 1 Michael Fulbright 2002-09-13 21:14:29 UTC
Appears to be a kernel drive issue.

Comment 2 Arjan van de Ven 2002-10-07 08:05:35 UTC
does using the e100 driver instead help ?
(the eepro100 driver seems to not have a hardware workaround for an interaction
with one specific type of cisco switch while using half duplex ;( )

Comment 3 James Hine 2002-11-06 02:55:32 UTC
Using the latest intel e100 driver appears to help will continue to test. This 
will not help with automated KS installs.


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