Re: 3com 3c556 Hurricane performance problems
Donald Becker <[email protected]>
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On 4 Sep 2002, Nicola Fankhauser wrote: > I have a Dell Inspiron 8100 with a 3com 3c556 Hurricane ethernet > adapter. With w2k I get almost 10Mbytes/s when transferring files, but > with the linux 3c59x driver on kernel 2.4.18 it's only around > 2-3Mbytes/s (tried both SMB and FTP) - is there something I can do to > unleash the power of the hurricane? ;) What is the driver detection message? What does 'mii-diag' (or 'vortex-diag -m') report? > lspci -vvv says this about my ethernet adapter: > > --- > > 02:06.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c556 Hurricane CardBus > (rev 10) > Subsystem: 3Com Corporation: Unknown device 6456 > Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV+ VGASnoop- > ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- > Status: Cap+ 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- > <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- > Latency: 32 (2500ns min, 1250ns max), cache line size 08 > Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 10 > Region 0: I/O ports at e800 [size=256] > Region 1: Memory at f8ffdc00 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) > [size=128] > Region 2: Memory at f8ffd800 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) > [size=128] > Expansion ROM at f9000000 [disabled] [size=128K] > Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2 > Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1+ D2+ AuxCurrent=0mA > PME(D0-,D1+,D2+,D3hot+,D3cold+) > Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=1 PME- > > --- > > please tell me if you need more info (vortex-diag, mii-diag etc.). thank > you for your help in advance. > > regards > nicola > > _______________________________________________ > vortex mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.scyld.com/mailman/listinfo/vortex > -- Donald Becker [email protected] Scyld Computing Corporation http://www.scyld.com 410 Severn Ave. Suite 210 Second Generation Beowulf Clusters Annapolis MD 21403 410-990-9993 _______________________________________________ vortex mailing list [email protected] http://www.scyld.com/mailman/listinfo/vortex