Linux network problem - 3Comm driver

"Robert Penny E (EAB)" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.drivers.vortex.devel
Organization Ericsson AB
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hello,

I have just migrated to the Linux kernel version 2.4.20 on my old
Dell Latitude CPi A, and am experiencing problems with networking
through the PCMCIA ethernet adapter, a 3Comm Model 3CCFE575BT.

The symptom is extremely slow throughput; for example during FTP
of large files, the rate is under 20 kB/sec.  Running the same
transfers under Windows 2000, I get more like 10 MB/sec.  Also,
this card worked fine under my earlier Linux driver, which was the
3C575_CB driver in the 2.4.5 kernel.  A hint could be that the
transfers seem to start off rather fast, but then get slower and
slower.

Hoping that it's of any help in finding the problem, I enclose the
output of lspci -v and dmesg.  Let me know if there is anything else
I can try to get more information for you.

Thanks in advance for any help you can provide in figuring out
what the problem might be.

Regards,
/Bob

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Robert E. Penny            <[email protected]>
Ericsson AB - UAB                          +46 8 727 2705
lspci-out (text/plain, 3.2 KB)
$ lspci -v

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX Host bridge (rev 03)
	Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32
	Memory at f4000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=64M]
	Capabilities: <available only to root>

00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX AGP bridge (rev 03) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
	Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 32
	Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=32
	I/O behind bridge: 0000c000-0000cfff
	Memory behind bridge: fd000000-feffffff
	Prefetchable memory behind bridge: f9000000-fbffffff

00:03.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1225 (rev 01)
	Subsystem: Dell Computer Corporation: Unknown device 0088
	Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 168, IRQ 11
	Memory at 10000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
	Bus: primary=00, secondary=02, subordinate=05, sec-latency=176
	Memory window 0: 10400000-107ff000 (prefetchable)
	Memory window 1: 10800000-10bff000
	I/O window 0: 00004000-000040ff
	I/O window 1: 00004400-000044ff
	16-bit legacy interface ports at 0001

00:03.1 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1225 (rev 01)
	Subsystem: Dell Computer Corporation: Unknown device 0088
	Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 168, IRQ 11
	Memory at 10001000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
	Bus: primary=00, secondary=06, subordinate=09, sec-latency=176
	Memory window 0: 10c00000-10fff000 (prefetchable)
	Memory window 1: 11000000-113ff000
	I/O window 0: 00004800-000048ff
	I/O window 1: 00004c00-00004cff
	16-bit legacy interface ports at 0001

00:07.0 Bridge: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ISA (rev 02)
	Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0

00:07.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 IDE (rev 01) (prog-if 80 [Master])
	Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32
	I/O ports at 0860 [size=16]

00:07.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 USB (rev 01) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
	Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 11
	I/O ports at ece0 [size=32]

00:07.3 Bridge: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ACPI (rev 02)
	Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 9

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Neomagic Corporation NM2200 [MagicGraph 256AV] (rev 12) (prog-if 00 [VGA])
	Subsystem: Dell Computer Corporation: Unknown device 0088
	Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 11
	Memory at fb000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=16M]
	Memory at fdc00000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4M]
	Memory at fdb00000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1M]
	Capabilities: <available only to root>

01:00.1 Multimedia audio controller: Neomagic Corporation NM2200 [MagicMedia 256AV Audio] (rev 12)
	Subsystem: Dell Computer Corporation: Unknown device 0088
	Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 5
	Memory at fac00000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=4M]
	Memory at fda00000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1M]
	Capabilities: <available only to root>

06:00.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c575 [Megahertz] 10/100 LAN CardBus (rev 01)
	Subsystem: 3Com Corporation 3C575 Megahertz 10/100 LAN Cardbus PC Card
	Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 11
	I/O ports at 4800 [size=128]
	Memory at 11000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=128]
	Memory at 11000080 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=128]
	Expansion ROM at 10c00000 [size=128K]
	Capabilities: <available only to root>
dmesg-out (text/plain, 6.3 KB)
$ dmesg

Linux version 2.4.20 (root@midas) (gcc version 3.2.2) #2 Mon Mar 17 22:02:15 PST 2003
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
 BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable)
 BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000000c0000 - 00000000000cc000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 0000000007ff0000 (usable)
 BIOS-e820: 0000000007ff0000 - 0000000008000000 (ACPI data)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000100a0000 - 0000000010100000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000ffe00000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
127MB LOWMEM available.
On node 0 totalpages: 32752
zone(0): 4096 pages.
zone(1): 28656 pages.
zone(2): 0 pages.
Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=Linux ro root=303
Initializing CPU#0
Detected 363.970 MHz processor.
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Calibrating delay loop... 725.81 BogoMIPS
Memory: 126520k/131008k available (1733k kernel code, 4100k reserved, 568k data, 112k init, 0k highmem)
Dentry cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
Inode cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
Mount-cache hash table entries: 2048 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
Buffer-cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
Page-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
CPU: L1 I cache: 16K, L1 D cache: 16K
CPU: L2 cache: 256K
CPU:     After generic, caps: 0183f9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU:             Common caps: 0183f9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: Intel Mobile Pentium II stepping 0a
Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
mtrr: v1.40 (20010327) Richard Gooch ([email protected])
mtrr: detected mtrr type: Intel
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfc0ee, last bus=1
PCI: Using configuration type 1
PCI: Probing PCI hardware
PCI: Using IRQ router PIIX [8086/7110] at 00:07.0
Limiting direct PCI/PCI transfers.
Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
Initializing RT netlink socket
Starting kswapd
VFS: Diskquotas version dquot_6.4.0 initialized
Journalled Block Device driver loaded
pty: 512 Unix98 ptys configured
Serial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-08) with HUB-6 MANY_PORTS MULTIPORT SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCI enabled
ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
Real Time Clock Driver v1.10e
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.31
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
PIIX4: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 39
PIIX4: chipset revision 1
PIIX4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
    ide0: BM-DMA at 0x0860-0x0867, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio
    ide1: BM-DMA at 0x0868-0x086f, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio
hda: IC25N020ATCS05-0, ATA DISK drive
hdc: TEAC CD-ROM CD-224E, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
blk: queue c0388784, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff)
hda: 39070080 sectors (20004 MB) w/7898KiB Cache, CHS=2432/255/63, UDMA(33)
hdc: ATAPI 24X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache, UDMA(33)
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12
ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide
Partition check:
 hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 hda4
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 7777K size 1024 blocksize
loop: loaded (max 8 devices)
ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide
SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00
kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k scsi_hostadapter, errno = 2
kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k scsi_hostadapter, errno = 2
kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k scsi_hostadapter, errno = 2
md: linear personality registered as nr 1
md: raid0 personality registered as nr 2
md: raid1 personality registered as nr 3
md: raid5 personality registered as nr 4
raid5: measuring checksumming speed
   8regs     :   602.400 MB/sec
   32regs    :   361.200 MB/sec
   pII_mmx   :   817.200 MB/sec
   p5_mmx    :   850.400 MB/sec
raid5: using function: p5_mmx (850.400 MB/sec)
md: md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27
md: Autodetecting RAID arrays.
md: autorun ...
md: ... autorun DONE.
LVM version 1.0.5+(22/07/2002)
NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP
IP: routing cache hash table of 512 buckets, 4Kbytes
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 8192 bind 16384)
NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0.
kjournald starting.  Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
VFS: Mounted root (ext3 filesystem) readonly.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 112k freed
Adding Swap: 257032k swap-space (priority -1)
EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.19, 19 August 2002 on ide0(3,3), internal journal
scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices
Linux Kernel Card Services 3.1.22
  options:  [pci] [cardbus] [pm]
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
Intel PCIC probe: not found.
Databook TCIC-2 PCMCIA probe: not found.
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 00:03.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 00:03.1
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 00:07.2
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 00:03.1
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 00:03.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 00:07.2
Yenta IRQ list 0698, PCI irq11
Socket status: 30000006
Yenta IRQ list 0698, PCI irq11
Socket status: 30000020
cs: cb_alloc(bus 6): vendor 0x10b7, device 0x5157
PCI: Enabling device 06:00.0 (0000 -> 0003)
cs: IO port probe 0x0c00-0x0cff: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0x0800-0x08ff: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0x0100-0x04ff: excluding 0x378-0x37f 0x4d0-0x4d7
cs: IO port probe 0x0a00-0x0aff: clean.
3c59x: Donald Becker and others. www.scyld.com/network/vortex.html
06:00.0: 3Com PCI 3CCFE575BT Cyclone CardBus at 0x4800. Vers LK1.1.16
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 06:00.0 to 64
NeoMagic 256AV/256ZX audio driver, version 1.1p
PCI: Found IRQ 5 for device 01:00.1
NM256: Found card signature in video RAM: 0x27ec00
NM256: Mapping port 1 from 0x266c00 - 0x27ec00
Initialized NeoMagic 256AV audio in PCI native mode
Initialized AC97 mixer
usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs
usb.c: registered new driver hub
uhci.c: USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v1.1
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 00:07.2
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 00:03.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 00:03.1
uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0xece0, IRQ 11
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: 2 ports detected
usb-uhci.c: $Revision: 1.275 $ time 15:38:38 Mar 11 2003
usb-uhci.c: High bandwidth mode enabled
usb-uhci.c: v1.275:USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver
spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7.
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