On Tue, 3 Nov 1998 11:54:35 -0500 (Eastern Standard Time) 
 Rick Byers <rickb@iaw.on.ca> wrote:

 > Hi,
 > I was just wondering if any progress has been made on the "epic0: device
 > timeout" problem with the SMC EtherPower II driver?  I'm having this
 > problem quite a lot, and sometimes the card never responds again (or
 > atleast, it didn't respond for the 1/2 hour that I was willing to wait).
 > Does anyone have any suggestions for making the card behave better (other
 > than using 100Mbps mode)?  

I strongly suspect it is a hardware bug in 10Mbps mode.  There is known
to be a clock source problem, and the address filter also does not work
properly in 10Mbps mode.  FreeBSD people are also seeing timeouts with
this hardware and their (completely different) driver for it.

Note, for me, not even a reboot fixes the problem sometimes.  I have to
power-cycle the machine once to _twice_ to get it to come back.

 > In the mean time, I will try to track down the cause of the problem, and
 > look though the source for the linux epic drive to see if it might help...

That would be great.  I do not have the time to actively hunt this down
myself...

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