From owner-freebsd-current Sun Dec 1 21:55:44 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 35CA937B401 for ; Sun, 1 Dec 2002 21:55:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from wabakimi.chat.carleton.ca (wabakimi.chat.carleton.ca [134.117.1.98]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 46B4043EC5 for ; Sun, 1 Dec 2002 21:55:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from creyenga@connectmail.carleton.ca) Received: from fireball (resnet-89-057.cavern.carleton.ca [134.117.89.57]) by wabakimi.chat.carleton.ca (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id gB25tee19944; Mon, 2 Dec 2002 00:55:40 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <001001c299c7$766a6120$0200000a@sewer.org> From: "Craig Reyenga" To: "Terry Lambert" Cc: , "Christopher J Olson" References: <2668299.1038795112570.JavaMail.creyenga@connectmail.carleton.ca> <3DEAE3E3.234605A9@mindspring.com> <001101c299bd$d2cc53b0$0200000a@sewer.org> <3DEAEA67.97073515@mindspring.com> Subject: Re: Any ideas at all about network problem? Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2002 00:55:39 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I just tried a 3com 3c905 NIC (my roommate's) and it _also_ transfers slowly (about 3.5MB/sec, so just under half of what i used to get with my realtek in -stable). It also spit out a few messages: xl0: <3Com 3c905-TX Fast Etherlink XL> port 0xe800-0xe83f irq 5 at device 8.0 on pci0 xl0: Ethernet address: 00:60:08:91:4c:fe miibus0: on xl0 nsphy0: on miibus0 nsphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto xl0: transmission error: 90 xl0: tx underrun, increasing tx start threshold to 120 bytes xl0: transmission error: 90 xl0: tx underrun, increasing tx start threshold to 180 bytes xl0: transmission error: 90 xl0: tx underrun, increasing tx start threshold to 240 bytes xl0: transmission error: 90 xl0: tx underrun, increasing tx start threshold to 300 bytes I'd really rather not play around with different versions of FreeBSD to fix this problem, because this computer is where I keep all of my stuff, and with exams, I just won't have the time. Yes I know that I "shouldn't be using 5.0 then" but a problem is a problem and it should be fixed. -Craig ----- Original Message ----- From: "Terry Lambert" To: "Craig Reyenga" Cc: Sent: Monday, December 02, 2002 00:06 Subject: Re: Any ideas at all about network problem? > Craig Reyenga wrote: > > It worked fine in 4.7 and all previous versions, just DP2 dunno about DP1. > > Well, you will have to back up to a version of the source code > before DP2 that didn't have the problem, perform a binary search > to find the exact delta that caused the problem, and examine the > code differences in order to find the problem change, and why it > causes the problem. > > Personally, I'd start with DP1, but that's because I have a > CDROM locally, and the CVS tree is not always buildable, since > there is no software enforcement of buildability before a change > is committed. > > There are almost 2 years worth of changes in the things which > were not brough back to the -STABLE branches from -CURRENT, so > diffing 4.7 and DP2 isn't likely to get you anywhere, I think. > > -- Terry > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message