Date: Wed, 1 Jul 1998 10:00:36 -0400 (EDT) From: "Steve Bernacki Jr." <steve@ziplink.net> To: faber@ISI.EDU Cc: hedges@atlantic.edu, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: *Success* with the Hitachi Visionbook PRO! Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980701094423.986A-100000@zip1.ziplink.net>
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Ted, First of all, I must have been sleeping when I downloaded my first boot floppy-- I downloaded the 2.1.7.1 floppy instead of 2.2.6. After having a few cups of coffee, I discovered by goof up and downloaded the correct disk. Apon booting, the kernel recognized the card as lnc1 (score!) I was able to use it, however transmission speeds were *horribly* slow (I was averaging 2.5k/second between two machines on a 10 Megabit ethernet!) I booted into windows, downloaded a bare-bones distribution + kernel sources, then rebooted and installed from my DOS partition. After getting a functioning system up and running, I then proceeded to figure out why my transmission speeds were so horrible. The kernel reported the following in /var/log/messages: Jun 30 17:44:22 myname /kernel: lnc1: Receive overflow error So, I applied your patch to the kernel source tree and rebuilt my kernel (I also took out all other ethernet devices in case the probing was confusing the card.) After rebooting I was able to get fast transmission speeds as opposed to the 2.5K/second on a 10 Megabit ethernet that I was getting before the patch! I am, however, still getting intermittent "Receive overflow errors" when attempting to do high volume transfers (typically between my laptop and another machine on the LAN.) Let me know what I can do to help get the driver into shape (debug messages, etc) and I'll be glad to do it. While I've no experience with driver-level programming, I'd be glad to learn and help out as much as I possibly can. Thanks to Douglas Hedges for originally pointing me towards the patch. Thanks again! -S -- Steve Bernacki, Jr. | steve@ziplink.net | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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