Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1999 11:24:36 +0100 (IST) From: Nick Hilliard <nick@iol.ie> To: bford@uop.cs.uop.edu Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 3C597 fast ethernet support Message-ID: <199908261024.LAA25895@beckett.earlsfort.iol.ie>
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> I've got a 100Mbit 3COM EISA ethernet interface. Here are the particulars: > > vx0: <3Com 3C597-TX Network Adapter> at 0x5000-0x501f, 0x5c80-0x5c89 > vx0: irq 12 (edge) on eisa0 slot 5 > > I've been running it for a while now at 10Mbit. From what I can gather, the > vx driver doesn't support fast ethernet. I'd be happy to lend the card to > anyone interested The vx driver supports FE speeds, just not very well. The problem is caused by the fact that the vx driver uses the 3com programmed I/O mechanism for talking to the nic, and this protocol is just not up to dealing with 100mbit speeds because its 4-byte buffer is far too small to handle large amounts of data very quickly. Its been some while since I've used the vx driver myself, but I remember being pretty disappointed by the speed of it. There's more about this in http://www.freebsd.org/~wpaul/3Com/. Nick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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