Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 7 Nov 1996 17:25:24 +0100 (MET) | From | Sven Eric <> | Subject | 3c507 driver, very slow |
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Dear Donald,
I recently got a 3c507 card which i use in an old 486 to connect to my pentium. Both machines run linux 2.0.23 The pentium has pcnet32 PCI built-in ethernet card which has worked fine in several machines sofar.
The problem is the 3c507, when i use it under Windows 3.11 it performance adequately (normal throughput) however when i use it under linux 'ifconfig' reports transmit errors, and the throughput is very low. (both system running idle). Example : if i try to ftp a 300k file the progress bar would jump from 0 to 17 % in the first second or two but the remaining 83 % percent could take up to a minute to transfer.
this is my config for the kernel (486) # # Automatically generated by make menuconfig: don't edit #
# # Code maturity level options # CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL=y
# # Loadable module support # # CONFIG_MODULES is not set
# # General setup # CONFIG_MATH_EMULATION=y CONFIG_NET=y # CONFIG_MAX_16M is not set # CONFIG_PCI is not set CONFIG_SYSVIPC=y CONFIG_BINFMT_AOUT=y CONFIG_BINFMT_ELF=y # CONFIG_BINFMT_JAVA is not set CONFIG_M486=y
# # Floppy, IDE, and other block devices # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_FD=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDE=y # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_HD_IDE is not set # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDECD is not set # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDETAPE is not set # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDE_PCMCIA is not set # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_CMD640 is not set # CONFIG_IDE_CHIPSETS is not set # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_LOOP is not set # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_MD is not set # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM is not set # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_XD is not set # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_HD is not set
# # Networking options # CONFIG_FIREWALL=y # CONFIG_NET_ALIAS is not set CONFIG_INET=y CONFIG_IP_FORWARD=y # CONFIG_IP_MULTICAST is not set CONFIG_IP_FIREWALL=y # CONFIG_IP_FIREWALL_VERBOSE is not set CONFIG_IP_MASQUERADE=y # CONFIG_IP_TRANSPARENT_PROXY is not set # CONFIG_IP_ALWAYS_DEFRAG is not set # CONFIG_IP_ACCT is not set # CONFIG_IP_ROUTER is not set # CONFIG_NET_IPIP is not set # CONFIG_INET_PCTCP is not set # CONFIG_INET_RARP is not set # CONFIG_NO_PATH_MTU_DISCOVERY is not set CONFIG_IP_NOSR=y # CONFIG_SKB_LARGE is not set # CONFIG_IPX is not set # CONFIG_ATALK is not set # CONFIG_AX25 is not set # CONFIG_BRIDGE is not set # CONFIG_NETLINK is not set
# # SCSI support # # CONFIG_SCSI is not set
# # Network device support # CONFIG_NETDEVICES=y CONFIG_DUMMY=y # CONFIG_EQUALIZER is not set # CONFIG_DLCI is not set # CONFIG_PLIP is not set CONFIG_PPP=y # CONFIG_SLIP is not set # CONFIG_NET_RADIO is not set CONFIG_NET_ETHERNET=y CONFIG_NET_VENDOR_3COM=y # CONFIG_EL1 is not set # CONFIG_EL2 is not set # CONFIG_ELPLUS is not set CONFIG_EL16=y # CONFIG_EL3 is not set # CONFIG_VORTEX is not set # CONFIG_LANCE is not set # CONFIG_NET_VENDOR_SMC is not set # CONFIG_NET_ISA is not set # CONFIG_NET_EISA is not set # CONFIG_NET_POCKET is not set # CONFIG_TR is not set # CONFIG_ARCNET is not set
# # ISDN subsystem # # CONFIG_ISDN is not set
# # CD-ROM drivers (not for SCSI or IDE/ATAPI drives) # # CONFIG_CD_NO_IDESCSI is not set
# # Filesystems # # CONFIG_QUOTA is not set CONFIG_MINIX_FS=y # CONFIG_EXT_FS is not set CONFIG_EXT2_FS=y # CONFIG_XIA_FS is not set CONFIG_FAT_FS=y CONFIG_MSDOS_FS=y # CONFIG_VFAT_FS is not set # CONFIG_UMSDOS_FS is not set CONFIG_PROC_FS=y # CONFIG_NFS_FS is not set # CONFIG_SMB_FS is not set CONFIG_ISO9660_FS=y # CONFIG_HPFS_FS is not set # CONFIG_SYSV_FS is not set # CONFIG_AFFS_FS is not set # CONFIG_UFS_FS is not set
# # Character devices # CONFIG_SERIAL=y # CONFIG_DIGI is not set # CONFIG_CYCLADES is not set # CONFIG_STALDRV is not set # CONFIG_RISCOM8 is not set CONFIG_PRINTER=y CONFIG_MOUSE=y # CONFIG_ATIXL_BUSMOUSE is not set # CONFIG_BUSMOUSE is not set # CONFIG_MS_BUSMOUSE is not set CONFIG_PSMOUSE=y # CONFIG_82C710_MOUSE is not set # CONFIG_UMISC is not set # CONFIG_QIC02_TAPE is not set # CONFIG_FTAPE is not set # CONFIG_APM is not set # CONFIG_WATCHDOG is not set # CONFIG_RTC is not set
# # Sound # # CONFIG_SOUND is not set
# # Kernel hacking # # CONFIG_PROFILE is not set
the card get initialise correctly:
3c507.c:v1.10 9/23/94 Donald Becker (becker@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov) eth0: 3c507 at 0x300, 00 60 8c 5b c2 f8, IRQ 3, external xcvr, memory 0xd0000-0xdffff. 3c507.c:v1.10 9/23/94 Donald Becker (becker@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov)
I'm probably overlooking something but i don't know what. Could you point me in the right direction??
Many thanks in advance,
Sven Eric
P.S. I'm pretty sure it's not a hardware problem because i tried 2 3c507 cards...
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