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Date:      Sat, 6 Feb 1999 08:15:56 +0100
From:      Matthias Apitz <guru@Sisis.de>
To:        "Eric I. Arnoth" <earnoth@UDel.Edu>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: PCCard and ethernet
Message-ID:  <19990206081556.32730@sisis.de>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.01.9902052303540.11444-100000@conn75-185.conn.udel.edu>; from Eric I. Arnoth on Fri, Feb 05, 1999 at 11:15:42PM -0500
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.01.9902052303540.11444-100000@conn75-185.conn.udel.edu>

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On Fri, Feb 05, 1999 at 11:15:42PM -0500, Eric I. Arnoth wrote:
> I'm trying to run a 3Com 3c389D Etherlink III card in a Compaq Presario
> 1610 laptop, running PCCard support.  When I plug in my card, the kernel
> tells me that the card is detected, and it is loading the ep0 driver.
> When I try to do anything, however, I get very disappointing results.
> Ping always has 100% packet loss, yet netstat -r gives a full and detailed
> network table, complete with ethernet addresses.  Traceroute also gives me
> returns, hopping from host to host, but at a return time of 2,000ms.
> Clearly, there is network traffic, but why is it so slow?

Looks like missing interrupts. Check-out the used irq in
/etc/pccard.conf and if the PCMCIA or CardBuss controller is
supported at all (check the boot messages) and can steer the
3c389D's interrupts correctly.

	matthias
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