Warner Losh wrote:
>
> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Lars Eggert writes:
> : We're getting very bad TCP throughput from a Linksys PCMPC100 card. I'm
> : wondering if anybody can confirm this or has seen a similar problem with
> : the Linksys card. It looks like the Linksys card is unable to perform at
> : 100Mbit/s full-duplex speeds, packets arrive too quickly to be drained
> : ("ed0: warning - receiver ring buffer overrun").
>
> This is a possible irq problem. I see that you are using irq 7, which
> the printer port normally uses. If you haven't disabled this device
> in your BIOS or if the device persists in driving IRQ 7 even when
> disabled, you must pick another one.
I've disabled the printer port in the bios:
[larse@dum: /home/larse] dmesg | grep ppc
ppc0: parallel port not found.
> To find out for sure, what does vmstat tell you?
[larse@dum: /home/larse] vmstat -i
interrupt total rate
ata0 irq14 1724 9
ata1 irq15 4 0
fdc0 irq6 2 0
atkbd0 irq1 331 1
clk irq0 18881 99
rtc irq8 24165 127
ed0 irq7 3811 20
Total 48918 258
I have tried to use that card under irq5, which should also be free (my
soundcard is at irq11). However, that causes "ed0: device timeout"
problems. Using irq3 or irq4 (with disabled serial ports) works as irq7
does, with the "ring overrun" messages.
> The other possibility is that the card is one of the newer ones like
> the fa-410 that needs faselect run.
faselect run? What is that/how do I enable this?
Thanks,
Lars
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