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Date:      Tue, 7 Dec 1999 11:19:09 -0800 (PST)
From:      Christopher Nielsen <cnielsen@pobox.com>
To:        Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
Cc:        Warner Losh <imp@village.org>, Darren Reed <avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au>, FreeBSD mobile Mailing List <freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: 3c589d w/ freebsd 3.3 works badly.
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.9912071108160.296-100000@ender.scient.com>
In-Reply-To: <19991206210033.19522@mojave.sitaranetworks.com>

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On Mon, 6 Dec 1999, 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 :-).

FWIW, I've been seeing the same behavior with my 3C589D. I haven't said
anything about it before because I've neither been able to track down
where the bug is lurking, nor have I had time to produce a useful bug
report. If anyone has patches they need tested, let me know. I'm willing
to be a guinea pig.

-- 
Christopher Nielsen
(enkhyl|cnielsen)@pobox.com



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