Messages in this thread | | | From | Dominik Karall <> | Subject | Re: limited bandwidth with SiS900 onboard NIC | Date | Fri, 18 Jun 2004 18:57:58 +0200 |
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On Friday 18 June 2004 17:53, Thomas Latzelsberger wrote: > Dear readers, > > As mentioned on http://teg.homeunix.org/sis900.html and > http://www.latzinator.com/acer_aspire_1705SMi.html there is a problem > with bandwidth for the SiS900 onboard NIC. I allways use vanilla kernels > and I'm having had this problem from 2.4.22 to 2.4.24 and from 2.6.2 to > 2.6.6. > The symptom is easy to explain. I connect the PC to a 100MBit switch and > no matter which method of transfer (ftp, scp, samba, nfs) I use, I get a > maximum transfer rate of less than 400kB/s. By accident I found a dirty > workaround that might be a hint for some tech savvy hackers: if I force > the NIC to use halfduplex (allthough it's connected to a switch) it > works like expected (7-8 MB/s). > > The only help I can be is that I can test new kernel drivers and send > you feedback. > > Any help highly appreciated, > > Thomas Latzelsberger
Hi, try the sis900-fix-phy-transceiver-detection.patch which you can find in -mm patches. It works fine for me, as I had the same problem. A few days ago, I asked why that patch wasn't moved to stable tree. Here you can find the mail: http://lkml.org/lkml/2004/6/16/182
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