From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Feb 7 23:47:25 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA15274 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 7 Feb 1998 23:47:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from birdland.rhein-neckar.de (root@birdland.rhein-neckar.de [193.197.88.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA15264 for ; Sat, 7 Feb 1998 23:47:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bsd@birdland.rhein-neckar.de) Received: from localhost (bsd@localhost) by birdland.rhein-neckar.de (8.8.7/8.8.3) with SMTP id IAA02466 for ; Sun, 8 Feb 1998 08:47:20 +0100 (MET) Date: Sun, 8 Feb 1998 08:47:19 +0100 (MET) From: Martin Jangowski Reply-To: Martin Jangowski To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: HP Kayak and very slow NE2100 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi! Last week I got a HP Kayak XA Workstation and tried to install 2.2.5-RELEASE on it. The machine has a combined UW-SCSI and 10/100 Ethernet PCI card. The SCSI-part is based on a 53C875 and worked flawlessly. The Ethernet-part of this card was identified as a Lance based card (NE2100, device lnc1) and almost worked... I can send data with >1Mbyte/s on a 10BaseT segment, but the receive-rate is a whopping 7k/s... any ideas? BTW, I have yet to install a machine (with Adaptec or NCR-SCSI) that will boot 2.2.5 without creating a small DOS-partition first... the usual error message is "read error" when trying to boot. It will make no difference, if I use a "dangerous" dedicated drive or a regular (DOS-) partiton table, it won't work. Creating a 1 MB DOS-Partition did the trick. I tried this with AH2940, on-board AIC7870, AIC7880 and 53C875... 2.1.7.1 booted flawlessly on the same machine and disk layout. That's progress... ;-) Martin | Martin Jangowski E-Mail: maja@birdland..rhein-neckar.de | | Voice: +49 621/53 95 06 Fax: +49 621/53 95 07 | | Snail Mail: Koenigsbacher Str. 16 D-67067 Ludwigshafen Germany | | RNInet e.V. Rhein-Neckar Internet | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe questions" in the body of the message