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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au!news.apana.org.au!cantor.edge.net.au!news.teragen.com.au!news.access.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!uunet!in3.uu.net!198.53.145.3!news.interlog.com!news From: khalidm@interlog.com (Khalid Mohiuddin) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: Re: 3C905 ethernet card Date: Sun, 02 Mar 1997 22:02:41 GMT Organization: Helix Consulting Lines: 25 Message-ID: <3319f813.76784450@news.interlog.com> References: <5ec4j7$rjb@ustsu10.ust.hk> Reply-To: khalidm@interlog.com NNTP-Posting-Host: khalidm.interlog.com X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.1/32.230 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:6172 keithlau@cs.ust.hk (Keith Kam-hing LAU) wrote: >Hi, > >Does anybody have 3C905 working normally with BSD/OS 2.1? I can >config it to use with my system (at 10BaseT), but there should be >some problems. Data is transfer unreasonably slow. Only around >6 Kbytes per second for a ftp session, while normally I can get >more than 200 kbytes in a 10Mbps ethernet. Remote dump or tar got >packet lost. From the data of netstat, the collision rate is not >high. I have tried different setting of the link0/1/2 option but >doesn't help. Anybody know about the fix/patch? We had a 3C905 installed on our chat server and had to take it out. We replaced it with an Intel EtherExpress and it's been fine since. We tried in futility to find out why this was so but at the end we chalked it up to the fact that the 3C905 was NOT on the supported HW list for BSDI 2.1. Good Luck, Khalid Mohiuddin Helix Consulting helixcon@interlog.com