> On 2 different systems with the same (sid) Debian distribution the > connection speed is limited to (more or less) 100 Kbit/s when using > 100 Mbit/s Ethernet cards. > > I have tried 2 different network cards on a machine and another card > on a different machine (all 100 Mb/s cards) but with the same result. > > When I start the SAME systems (choosing from Lilo boot menu) the kernel > 2.6.7-1-k7 all works as expected (connection at 100 Mbit/s), whereas > when I started the kernel 2.6.8-1-k7 the connection is 1000 times slower. > > I don't know if the problem is common to the other flavours of the 2.6.8-1 > kernel.
Maybe instead you could provide some basic information instead of the silly severity.. That would be dmesg and /proc/interrupts for the working and non-working case, and quite important aswell what driver you're using.
