From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Aug 19 9: 8:33 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from euromail1.genrad.com (x253.genrad.co.uk [195.99.3.253]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3385015024 for ; Thu, 19 Aug 1999 09:08:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from swindellsr@genrad.co.uk) Received: from CDP437 (cdp437.uk.genrad.com [132.223.130.44]) by euromail1.genrad.com with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2448.0) id QY1WCV1C; Thu, 19 Aug 1999 17:08:11 +0100 From: Robert Swindells To: sean@dreamfire.net Cc: stable@freebsd.org In-reply-to: <37BB59D0.72484081@dreamfire.net> (message from Sean-Paul Rees on Wed, 18 Aug 1999 18:11:44 -0700) Subject: Re: AMD PCnet 10/100 PCI usability Reply-To: rjs@fdy2.demon.co.uk Message-Id: <19990819160830.3385015024@hub.freebsd.org> Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1999 09:08:30 -0700 (PDT) Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >I have a PCnet 10/100 adapter built onto my motherboard (PC Server 325), >and FreeBSD picks it up as "lnc1." The damned thing got 3-4k/sec >transfers at the most. It appeared to not be negotiating with the hub >correctly. Yup, they can fail to autonegotiate. >It looks like I'm going to need a second ethernet in that particular >machine to run NATD for a DSL. Is anybody getting decent performance >with that adapter in a similar configuration? I'd like to save $50. They work fine when the settings match the hub. Interrupt overhead is fairly low too, better than NE2000 clones anyway. We really need to add if_media support to the driver. I got some way through doing it for 2.2.8 but then the driver in -CURRENT diverged too much. I have now upgraded to 3.2-STABLE so I'll take another look at it. The alternative is to force the chip into half-duplex mode in the driver. Robert To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message