From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 31 01:24:05 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA18753 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 31 Mar 1998 01:24:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ers.online.sh.cn ([202.96.211.193]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id BAA18524 for ; Tue, 31 Mar 1998 01:22:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from paulk@ether.online.sh.cn) Received: from jinbo.ether.online.sh.cn (202.96.201.168) by ers.online.sh.cn (EMWAC SMTPRS 0.81) with SMTP id ; Tue, 31 Mar 1998 17:20:00 +0800 Message-ID: From: "Paul King" To: "Sean Lyndersay" , Cc: Subject: Re: Slow network performance on 3com 3c509 Date: Tue, 31 Mar 1998 17:17:20 +0800 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Microsoft Internet Mail 4.70.1155 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Try use the configuration of 3C509 as Win95/NT. ---------- > From: Sean Lyndersay > To: dg@root.com > Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: RE: Slow network performance on 3com 3c509 > Date: Tuesday, March 31, 1998 2:01 PM > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: root@implode.root.com [mailto:root@implode.root.com]On Behalf Of > > David Greenman > > Sent: Tuesday, March 31, 1998 12:54 AM > > To: Sean Lyndersay > > Subject: Re: Slow network performance on 3com 3c509 > > > > > > >Okay, I've removed the SB16 completely, and rebuilt the kernel > > with no sound > > >support. I've tried the 3com card on both IRQ 7 (i haven't got a printer) > > >and IRQ 5, to no avail. I'm still getting really slow performance. > > > > > >I'm going to try another network card, and I'll report back. > > > > Do you have PnP support enabled on the card? If so, you might try > > disabling that. I'm starting to wonder if the problem might be a bad > > cable segment... > > To my knowledge, the 3c509 doesn't support PnP (this is the original, not > the 3c509b). There's certainly no such option in the configuration program. > As for a bad cable segment, is there something unique to FreeBSD that would > cause such a problem to be show up, considering that I have no problems > getting speeds of 200K/s under Win95/NT. > > sean > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message