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GX150: Test results with Dell 3c90x-102 driver.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Cattey)
Tue Feb 12 19:36:11 2002
Message-ID: <YwOPHptz0001FgrqsB@mit.edu>
Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002 00:36:05 +0000 ()
From: Bill Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU>
To: vortex@scyld.com, akpm@zip.com.au, release-team@MIT.EDU
Dell sent me a candidate driver to test. I mentioned I'd pass along the
test results. Summary: This driver handles this chip more poorly than
the 1.16 3c59x did.
Problems:
1. The default configuration for the driver is to not enable ANY media.
(This is a rather silly default, but easily remedied.)
2. Setting the media=7 option, to enable auto-select results in a worse
failure than we currently experience. (Our current failure with the
existing default RedHat 3c59x driver is that some systems end up
with 6Kbytes/sec throughput instead of 100Mbits/sec on a 100Base-T
network. The auto-select option with your driver seems to start
the network. There is a status report in dmesg, and ifconfig shows
a working network. But NO data can be received or sent.)
3. Setting media=1 option which forces 10Base-T DOES result in
a working network.
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Oh well, back to the drawing board. :-)
-wdc
