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SubjectRe: [BUG] dm9601 driver won't init device properly
On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 10:44:41AM -0400, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> On Fri, 23 Jul 2010 14:57:36 CDT, Bob Tracy said:
> > I've got one of the inexpensive Davicom DM9601 USB to fast Ethernet
> > devices, commonly available on eBay for under $10 including shipping.
> > It works fairly well in a WinXP environment with a MTU of 1000: 1500
> > and 1492 are confirmed not working, and values between 1000 and 1492
> > have not been tested at this point.
>
> Wow. An "ethernet" card that won't do an MTU of 1500 even under Windows. May I
> add this to my gallery of examples I use when people say "no vendor could
> *possibly* ship hardware that fscked up"? :)

You may :-), although I wouldn't assume the Windows driver is blameless.
At 100 Mbit/s, flow-control simply has to work if the device is USB 1.1.
According to the data sheet, there's a total of 16 kB of on-chip SRAM
available for buffering (oddly enough, the documentation indicates the
device *could* support up to 64 kB of SRAM). Gotta shovel out that
stall quickly, and I suspect using a smaller MTU is simply giving an
inefficient driver more time to do that. If I don't get tired of
messing around with this adapter, I may experiment a little to see what
happens when I lock the interface speed at 10 Mbit/s (instead of letting
it auto-sense).

Another respondent said MTU >= 1280 is required for IPv6, so I gave that
a try just to see if the floor could be raised a bit above 1000. For
what it's worth, 1280 works.

--Bob


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