Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 73847
Kickstart FTP install fails with Compaq Deskpro EN (eepro100)
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:46:35 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; Windows NT) 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.
Appears to be a kernel drive issue.
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 ;( )
Using the latest intel e100 driver appears to help will continue to test. This will not help with automated KS installs.