Re: CRAP in 2.4.18-pre7

From: Jeff Garzik (jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com)
Date: Sun Jan 27 2002 - 11:50:46 EST


Martin Dalecki wrote:
> I would like to notice that the changes in 2.4.18-pre7 to the
> tulip eth driver are apparently causing absymal performance drops
> on my version of this card. Apparently the performance is dropping
> from the expected 10MB/s to about 10kB/s. The only special
> thing about the configuration in question is the fact that it's
> a direct connection between two hosts. Well, more precisely it's
> a cross-over link between my notebook and desktop.

Are you seeing collisions?
What is the other side configured as?
What type of cabling?

> Here is an excerpt from the lspci command:
>
> 00:0b.0 Ethernet controller: Digital Equipment Corporation DECchip 21041

This is interesting considering that for most people, 21041 did not work
at all until 2.4.18-preXX tulip patches.

        Jeff

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