From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jul 10 10:33:54 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA11314 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Fri, 10 Jul 1998 10:33:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from hobbes.saturn-tech.com (drussell@hobbes.saturn-tech.com [207.229.19.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA11294 for ; Fri, 10 Jul 1998 10:33:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from drussell@saturn-tech.com) Received: from localhost (drussell@localhost) by hobbes.saturn-tech.com (8.8.4/8.8.2) with SMTP id LAA22889; Fri, 10 Jul 1998 11:32:50 -0600 (MDT) Date: Fri, 10 Jul 1998 11:32:50 -0600 (MDT) From: Doug Russell To: Dag-Erling Coidan Smørgrav cc: sbabkin@dcn.att.com, mike@smith.net.au, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NIC drivers In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from QUOTED-PRINTABLE to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id KAA11295 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 9 Jul 1998, Dag-Erling Coidan Smørgrav wrote: > Believe me, it still sucks. Search the archives (both the mailing list > archives and the PR database) for "no buffer space", and/or "ep0". > Basically, the driver is fine for telnet and mail, but wedges under > sustained load. I can get it to hang without ever going above 20 kBps > (160 kbps). Gimme an Intel EtherExpress. They are definitely funky. I have one (thank goodness it was given to me, I didn't buy it. :) ) It usually sits on the shelf, but when I have tried to use it, it will do all kinds of strange things. In some machines, the probe fails to detect it. Drop it straight into another machine, and it will be detected fine. If you can get it detected, sometimes it will basically work, and sometimes it will go at about 5 K/sec. Drop it into another machine, and it'll do 800 K/sec. Don't ask me... I don't know. That's why it sits on the shelf. :) Later...... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message