From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 9 00:28:01 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA06101 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 8 Feb 1998 23:58:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA06067 for ; Sun, 8 Feb 1998 23:58:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id XAA25455; Sun, 8 Feb 1998 23:57:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Sun, 8 Feb 1998 23:57:49 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Martin Jangowski cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HP Kayak and very slow NE2100 In-Reply-To: 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 On Sun, 8 Feb 1998, Martin Jangowski wrote: > 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? Check interrupts, make sure there's no conflict. Are you sure the NE2100 probes correctly as a Lance? I have a stack of these cards that I'd love to borrow from Housing if they work under lance. > 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... ;-) Apparently this is a Award BIOS tweak, if you have that. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe questions" in the body of the message