From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jun 13 07:08:34 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id HAA06349 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 13 Jun 1995 07:08:34 -0700 Received: from zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za (some.schmuck.lame.delegated.to.RAIN.PSG.COM [146.64.24.58]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id HAA06263 for ; Tue, 13 Jun 1995 07:08:17 -0700 Received: (from jhay@localhost) by zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za (8.6.11/8.6.6) id QAA28035; Tue, 13 Jun 1995 16:08:04 +0200 From: John Hay Message-Id: <199506131408.QAA28035@zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za> Subject: Re: Slow networking with SMC Elite Ultra To: Marino.Ladavac@aut.alcatel.at Date: Tue, 13 Jun 1995 16:08:04 +0200 (SAT) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com In-Reply-To: <9506131352.AA07855@atuhc16.aut.alcatel.at> from "Marino.Ladavac@aut.alcatel.at" at Jun 13, 95 03:52:17 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 700 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > I have two 486 boxes on the isolated piece of ether. I've set > up networking between the boxes, and they see each other and > communicate okay, but *very slowly*. > > The ether cards are SMC Elite Ultra's, 83-something, which used to > be recognized as 8216 w/16 kB of RAM at 2.0R times, and are > recognized as 8416 w/8 kB at 2.05A. They did work okay on 2.0R! > I have also seen this on some of my machines (haven't checked all of them) They probe as: ed0 at 0x280-0x29f irq 11 maddr 0xd8000 msize 8192 on isa ed0: address 00:00:c0:be:12:95, type SMC8416C/SMC8416BT (16 bit) but I know they are 8216C. I haven't figured out what went wrong yet.:( -- John Hay -- jhay@mikom.csir.co.za