Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 15:58:30 -0400 From: Jason Andresen <jandrese@mitre.org> To: "A. Smith" <tonys@loa.com> Cc: Mobile FreeBSD <freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: ep0 crawling Message-ID: <3AE5DAE6.2B7E2F4E@mitre.org> References: <00cf01c0ccf5$fcc69360$3eb4a8c0@statix>
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"A. Smith" wrote: > > Hi all - > > I have a 3com 10baseT pccard NIC that is having some speed issues. I'm > thinking it's hardware related, but i'm not convinced just yet, where it's a > brand new card. It is one of 2 cards in my IBM Thinkpad, which is set up as > a firewall/router for my DSL connection: > <dmesg clip> > pccard: card inserted, slot 0 > pccard: card inserted, slot 1 > ed0 at port 0x300-0x31f irq 3 slot 0 on pccard0 > ed0: address 00:e0:98:7c:01:dd, type Linksys (16 bit) > ep0: <3Com Etherlink III 3C589> at port 0x240-0x24f irq 5 slot 1 on pccard1 > ep0: Ethernet address 00:60:08:de:a7:5f > > When the card is used as the internal interface, I get ungodly poor ping to > my internal machine, ranging from 2000-6000. I get around 20,000-30,000 when > using the card as the external interface. Pretty rough...kinda hard to > browse with a ping like that. I was hoping this might be something someone > has heard of before. It only affects the one card. > Well, I usually see that when I have an interrupt conflict. IIRC the ep driver would tend to return pings once every 3000ms or something very regular (driver timeouts I assumed). Once I got the IRQ configured correctly (It can't share, so make sure you only list free interrupts in your pccard.conf file). To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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