Messages in this thread | | | From | (Måns Rullgård) | Subject | Re: Sis900 ethernet dropping 70% packets | Date | Mon, 15 Dec 2003 01:54:37 +0100 |
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Andrew Walrond <andrew@walrond.org> writes:
> I'm trying to install a little Via C3 machine with on-board Sis900 ethernet. > As usual, I booted my LNX-BBC rescue disk, configured eth0 and tried to scp > my distro over, but failed miserably. > > Pinging other hosts on the net sees 70-80% packets getting lost. > > LNX-BBC rescue cd uses a 2.4.19 kernel > > So then I tried a Trinity rescue disk, using a 2.4.21 kernel. Same thing. > > Anybody got experience of this? Googling gives wads of people with similar > sounding problems, mostly interrupt related, sometimes Vlan related (It's > plugged into a Cisco catalyst but I tried a x-over cable to my laptop with > the same result, so I don't think thats relevant), but don't see any > solutions. > > Is this a known-bad interface? The drivers sources don't seem to > have been touched for a long time which makes me think its unlikely > that a newer kernel would help, but who knows...
I can only say that my laptop has a sis900, and I've never had any problems with it. I'd look for errors elsewhere. Maybe it's ACPI related. ACPI seems to be able to screw up anything.
-- Måns Rullgård mru@kth.se
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