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From: brian@anorak.utell.net (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Laptops & PCMCIA cards: *slow* Ethernet
Date: 3 Dec 1996 14:26:13 -0000
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In article <57v397$o2m@jethro.corp.sun.com>,
dcmyers@concord.corp.sun.com (David Myers) writes:
:
:
: 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?
Tough luck ! I get 30k per second..... :-/ I've given up bitching,
these cards seem to work fine for everyone else. Personally, I'd
never try to put a 3com card in a FreeBSD box - an NE2000 clone
will beat the socks off any 3com card I've ever used (only 2 or 3).
--
Brian <brian%anorak.coverform.lan@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>
<http://www.awfulhak.demon.co.uk/>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....
.