Re: your mail

Alan Cox (alan@cymru.net)
Thu, 9 May 1996 09:51:25 +0100 (BST)


> In 1.3.99, the 8390 support seems completely broken, and 1.3.98 it was
> marginally usable. In '99, eth0: WD8013 reports 0x300 as the IO
> address, but in ifconfig, it says 0x310. Really strange. In '98,

Its supposed to, it always has. Read the ethernet howto.

> ethernet seems to crash randomly or become really slow. Transfer rates
> dropped to half what it was in the 1.3.70-series kernels. Wierd... Any
> ideas what's happening?

For everyone else they have gone up about 20%. Do you have a bad
clone of some sort by any chance. Do you have an SMC ultra and an adaptec
scsi card, have you got caching disabled correctly for the WD8013 card
space, have you got an 8 bit card in the same 128K isa bus space, are
you running the ISA bus over 8MHz.

Does 1.2.13 work ?

Alan