From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jul 28 10:40:52 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id KAA20273 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 28 Jul 1997 10:40:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id KAA20267 for ; Mon, 28 Jul 1997 10:40:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id KAA01326; Mon, 28 Jul 1997 10:38:32 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199707281738.KAA01326@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: AMD PCNet/PCI troubles To: max@iclub.nsu.ru (Max Khon) Date: Mon, 28 Jul 1997 10:38:32 -0700 (MST) Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "Max Khon" at Jul 28, 97 06:48:58 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > I don't have access to a current Linux kernel tree (as getting such an > > animal requires real effort, as opposed to the FreeBSD tree 8), so I can't > > check offhand and see if they actually report these errors to the console. > > but under FreeBSD (unlike Linux) networking sometimes is very slow > (~30-50K/s via ftp) In combination with the babble error, I suspect you are either on the wrong IRQ, or you have another noise source on the IRQ: IRQ 2: Check to see if the video card is sending vertical retrace interrupts. IRQ 5: You have a sound card. You can not share interrupts with ISA cards. Period. IRQ 7: Garbage interrupt. Don't use IRQ 7 for anything other than the parallel printer port. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.