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From: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@info.iet.unipi.it>
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Subject: Re: rtl8139 driver.
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> I currently have a Sharp pc ax20 laptop with an inbuilt rtl8139 nic. It works

i have an AX10, similar design i suppose, and it works fast and fine for me
at 10megs. Are you sure the card isn't autoconfiguring for full duplex or
something like that, killing other packets on the lan ?

	cheers
	luigi

> wonderfully well on my works 100 meg switched network, at home I have a 10 meg
> hub (can't afford a 100 meg switch yet) and it also works great for downloading
> off the net nat'ed off my adsl connection. Though copying internally to any of
> my windows / freebsd or linux machines I am lucky to acheive 4k/sec and the
> connections normally time out. All of the other machines on my network can do
> 700+ k/sec in between each other. I can only think it would be the driver that
> causes these problems, either that or it is not auto detecting the type of
> network that it is on in some way. Using win2k on same laptop I get normal
> speeds copying internally.
> 
> I am using 4.3 RC
> 
> If anyone has any ideas please let me know. I will probably end up trashing
> this machine anyways as my pcmcia DVD-ROM & usb floppy drive both stopped
> working after I cvsup'ed to 4.2-STABLE & haven't worked since.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Mark
> 
> -- 
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