> Then I upgraded that machine to pIII 700 and even that machine slows to a
> crawl while transmitting with that bloody ISA NE2K. It's the same thing in
> kernel 2.4 too. These days I simply don't use that card anymore...
>
> So something seems to have taken a wrong turn between 2.0 and 2.2
> I don't think this is a problem intruduced in 2.4.
A faster machine will take as long as a slow machine with an ne2000. It
doesn't matter if its an 8Mb 386 or a dual athlon, it will spend almost all
of its ne2000 handling time poking bytes across an 8MHz bus.
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