Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 21:57:27 -0700 (PDT) From: "Richard S. Conto" <rsc@merit.edu> To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: kern/29919: Laptop w/pccard modem & ethernet communication problems Message-ID: <200108210457.f7L4vRX27192@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 29919
>Category: kern
>Synopsis: Laptop w/pccard modem & ethernet communication problems
>Confidential: no
>Severity: serious
>Priority: medium
>Responsible: freebsd-bugs
>State: open
>Quarter:
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>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Mon Aug 20 22:00:00 PDT 2001
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Richard S. Conto
>Release: 4.4-PRERELEASE, cvsup Wed Aug 15, ~ 10:00 EDT
>Organization:
Merit Network, Inc.
>Environment:
FreeBSD x25.home 4.4-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 4.4-PRERELEASE #0: Wed Aug 15 16:33:29 EDT 2001
rsc@x25.home:/usr/src/sys/compile/INSPIRION3K i386
(Dell Inspiron 3000, 3Com Corporation (/3C589/), <TI PCI-1131 PCI-CardBus Bridge>
>Description:
I think this is related to kern/29794 and kern/29742.
I cvsup'd to -stable around 10:00am Wed August 15, 2001 EDT, but didn't
start excercising it until the next day, when I discovered that
TCP/IP connectivity was abysmal.
I first noticed the abysmal connectevity when I tried to start `arla'
(`ports/net/arla', and discovered that my ethernet connection at work
was even worse than my piddly dialip connection at home.
After some poking around, I discovered a most unusual fact:
If I ran 'ping -c 1000 -i 10 -s 1200 <a-host-on-the-same-subnet/LAN>'
I got delays of 2 seconds. Even more unusual was the delay would
drop by 10 ms every 'ping' packet, until the delay reached 1.1 seconds,
when the delay would reset to 2 seconds.
This is very frustrating, as I don't have a way to easily connect to
a network right now. (I suppose I'll have to use an external modem.)
B.T.W.: Another box I have (an ancient Gateway 2000 P5-120) is still
working, but it just isn't portable. It was upgraded later that
day, and again after I ran into troubles with the laptop. I'm trying
to keep a full CVS archive of 'src-all' on this machine.
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