Subject: AsanteFast 10/100
From: Dan Bethe (dan_bethe@yahoo.com)
Date: Sun Oct 21 2001 - 02:47:42 MDT
Hi all. If you wouldn't mind, perhaps you could cc me directly on this.
I've got a PowerMac 8500 with an AsanteFast 10/100 ethernet card. When I
originally installed YDL 2.0, the tulip.c driver in the kernel autodetected the
kernel. Now I'm using my own compiled version of kernel 2.2.19 and the de4x5.c
driver, which also seems related to DEC chipsets, is the one which has
mysteriously autodetected the card.
Here's the info from 'dmesg':
eth1: DC21140 at 0x0400 (PCI bus 0, device 13), h/w address 00:00:94:7a:39:06,
and requires IRQ23 (provided by PCI BIOS).
de4x5.c:V0.544 1999/5/8 davies@maniac.ultranet.com
eth1: media is 100Mb/s.
eth1: media is TP.
All I know is that the card only performs at about 1 to 3 megabytes per second
under either MacOS 9 with Asante's driver under or YDL. I have no idea why.
The rest of my LAN moves at closer to 10 megabytes per second on my 10/100
switch. The problem is completely isolated to that card on that host.
Do any of you have any clues on how I can improve performance? A driver
parameter, a driver source modification, a different driver, etc? Have I been
specific enough on which card I'm using?
Thanks a lot!
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