On Mon, 13 Jan 2003 21:27:58 +0100, Jonas Jonsson wrote: > [ Problems with VT6105 based DFE530TX ] I don't know your particular card (the chip on mine is rev 85, yours is 86), but FWIW TCP throughput on mine is very close to 100MBit/s (11 seconds for a 100 MB file) -- both ways. That's with a recent stock kernel driver. There _is_ still an issue I want to look into some time, where the card falls back to half-duplex under load, and speed goes down to 1% of normal speed. Doesn't really look like that's the problem you're seeing. I'd rather not comment on VIA's driver. It's... different. Donald Becker's driver (scyld), though, is reasonably close to the mainline driver, so the behavior you describe is rather a surprise (to me, at least). Should you have IO-APIC support enabled, try disabling that. It is known to cause problems with Rhine based cards. mii-diag and via-diag output might be interesting to compare before and after the card breaks down. > Any ideas to get this thing to work better or should I just trough that > NIC out thought the Window(s) or what? Don't throw it away yet. AFAIK it's the first positive sighting of that chip revision. Collector's item, if you will. Roger - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
