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Date:      Tue, 7 Dec 1999 16:08:49 +0100
From:      "Niels Chr. Bank-Pedersen" <ncbp@bank-pedersen.dk>
To:        FreeBSD mobile Mailing List <freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: 3c589d w/ freebsd 3.3 works badly.
Message-ID:  <19991207160848.A27105@bank-pedersen.dk>
In-Reply-To: <19991206210033.19522@mojave.sitaranetworks.com>; from grog@mojave.sitaranetworks.com on Mon, Dec 06, 1999 at 09:00:33PM -0500
References:  <199912060251.NAA16461@cairo.anu.edu.au> <199912062312.QAA37583@harmony.village.org> <19991206210033.19522@mojave.sitaranetworks.com>

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On Mon, Dec 06, 1999 at 09:00:33PM -0500, Greg Lehey wrote:
> [Moved to FreeBSD-mobile]
> 
> On Monday,  6 December 1999 at 16:12:49 -0700, Warner Losh wrote:
> > In message <199912060251.NAA16461@cairo.anu.edu.au> Darren Reed writes:
> > : How reliable should the ep0 driver be with 3c389d pcmcia cards ?
> >
> > I had no problems using 3.3 and my 3C589D, but I've only done minor
> > stuff with that.  I've done most of my work on -current, however.  The
> > most likely problem is that you're using the wrong IRQ for the card.
> > You'll want to check /etc/rc.conf to make sure that you are using the
> > /etc/pccard.conf file.  Also, you'll want to make sure that the irq
> > line is correct.
> 
> I don't know if this is the same issue, but I've seen terrible write
> performance on my 3C589C under -CURRENT, and so has phk.  Read
> performance is OK.  Looking at the hub, I see a short burst of
> activity and then nothing for the rest of a second.  This repeats
> itself in this manner.  No errors, but a write throughput of less than
> 50 kB/s.  I've seen this before recent changes in -CURRENT, but it
> seems worse now (or maybe I've just paid more attention to it now :-).

I've seen something similar - turned out to be changes in the pcm
detection that resulted in irq conflicts (as mentioned above).
After I hardwired irg/drq in my kernel, the problem was gone...

> Greg


/Niels Chr.

-- 
 Niels Christian Bank-Pedersen, NCB1-RIPE.
 Network Manager, Tele Danmark NET, IP-section.

 "Hey, are any of you guys out there actually *using* RFC 2549?"


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