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From: dcmyers@concord.corp.sun.com (David Myers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Laptops & PCMCIA cards: *slow* Ethernet
Date: 2 Dec 1996 17:22:47 GMT
Organization: Sun Microsystems Inc.
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I recently got a Toshiba 410CDT laptop with a 3Com Etherlink III
PCMCIA card.  Following up the leads in this newsgroup and elsewhere,
I downloaded and installed the PAO patch.  The card does seem to
get recognized and the ep0 driver attached, but network performance
is exceptionally slow -- on the order of a few hundred bytes per
second, with long delays between packets.  Windows 95 drives the
card at 600KB per second, so I know the hardware is good.

This is under FreeBSD 2.1.5 with the 081396 (I believe) revision of
the PAO software -- the latest version supported under 2.1.5.  Can
anyone help me get the card up to speed?


-David.