From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 30 1: 0:34 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from phoenix.welearn.com.au (phoenix.welearn.com.au [139.130.44.81]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 60E4F15179 for ; Thu, 30 Dec 1999 01:00:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jon@phoenix.welearn.com.au) Received: (from jon@localhost) by phoenix.welearn.com.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) id UAA60082 for questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Thu, 30 Dec 1999 20:00:23 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from jon) Date: Thu, 30 Dec 1999 20:00:20 +1100 From: Jonathan Michaels To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Poor Internet throughput on FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE Message-ID: <19991230200018.A56975@phoenix.welearn.com.au> Reply-To: jon@welearn.com.au References: <19991230014304.w8sdz@Mail.Petersen.Net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: <19991230014304.w8sdz@Mail.Petersen.Net>; from Keith Petersen on Thu, Dec 30, 1999 at 01:43:04AM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG hello all .. i;m not sure if i should be asking this question in -questions. i have a new (fro me) pentium pr 180 mhz motherboard, it is a supermicro p6sne. i have a pci based smc nic a smc9432tx - EtherPower II 10/100, it is the smc epic/100 83c170 seris. i've had this card (and teh computer) for a little over two years now, i purchased it new. after working for about 6 months flawlessly in freebsd v2.2.7-release i did a fresh install of v2.2.8-release and teh nic stoped working, it just slowed down and finally wouldn't pass any traffic. now that i have got my v3.3-release cds i plan to resurect my x11 desktop machine i plan to build a 'graphics workstation'. recently i caught the tail end of a thread that said that the smc epic (83c170, in particular) based nics were no longer supported because they were to hard to make work and or build a driver for. if its any help this same computer works flawlessly in ibms os/2 v3.0 warp connect and nt v4 sans any fixup patches and ms dos based tcp/ip networking. freebsd works ok just the nic seems to have decided to dislike freebsd, so much so that freebsd no longer sees the nic on bootup. i find this particularly frustrating as it worked very well for some 6 months with v2.2.7-release, i'd be happy to go back to that if i could get it to work. when i failed thier were no log entries no 'failure' or error repots generated it just slowed down. i remember one other persom making a similarplea also with no answers, none that i could find. i've poked arond in the archive (even asked a few linux people i know) .. noting. i'm not ready to buy a new card and the store was not keen on refunding or replaceing, it was a special order and they only deal in $10 ne2000 clones and as i said the card did and still works (very) well in microsoft windows 95-98 and microsoft windows nt (both server and workstation) .. just not freebsd it seems. they were skeptical when i told them that the machine woould be returned if i didn't work with freebsd but gave me a two week 'on aproval' period, i used to be a good "professonal services" customer, before i retired. i've checked the bios fro pnp os type things its all set to favour freebsd. some pointers would be apreciated, also i'm nolonger subscribed to -questions, so a cc with my email would be muchly apreciated. warm regards jonathan ps, i checked the hub (netgear 8 port 10 mbit, en308) all the cables, and had a set handmade by a wiring/network 'expert', he is a telco e1 (2 mbit) wiring and cable installer. i just don't know what to do next. -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message