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Date:      Sun, 8 Feb 1998 08:47:19 +0100 (MET)
From:      Martin Jangowski <bsd@birdland.rhein-neckar.de>
To:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   HP Kayak and very slow NE2100
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.94.980208082729.1846A-100000@birdland.rhein-neckar.de>

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Hi!

Last week I got a HP Kayak XA Workstation and tried to install
2.2.5-RELEASE on it. The machine has a combined UW-SCSI and 10/100
Ethernet PCI card. The SCSI-part is based on a 53C875 and worked
flawlessly. The Ethernet-part of this card was identified as a Lance based
card (NE2100, device lnc1) and almost worked... I can send data with
>1Mbyte/s on a 10BaseT segment, but the receive-rate is a whopping 7k/s...
any ideas?

BTW, I have yet to install a machine (with Adaptec or NCR-SCSI) that will
boot 2.2.5 without creating a small DOS-partition first... the usual error
message is "read error" when trying to boot. It will make no difference,
if I use a "dangerous" dedicated drive or a regular (DOS-) partiton table,
it won't work. Creating a 1 MB DOS-Partition did the trick. I tried this
with AH2940, on-board AIC7870, AIC7880 and 53C875... 2.1.7.1 booted
flawlessly on the same machine and disk layout. That's progress... ;-)

Martin


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