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Date: Mon, 25 Dec 2000 17:40:26 +0000 (GMT)
From: Alex Buell <alex.buell@tahallah.clara.co.uk>
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On Mon, 25 Dec 2000, Manfred wrote:

> Could you try this setup?
> <<<<<<<<
>  /* Configure the PCI bus bursts and FIFO thresholds. */
>  /* Configure for standard, in-spec Ethernet. */
>  np->tx_config = (1<<28) +       /* Automatic transmit padding */
>              (1<<23) +       /* Excessive collision retry */
>              (6<<20) +     /* Max DMA burst = 128 byte */
>              (8<<8) +        /* fill threshold = 256 byte */
>              8;              /* drain threshold = 256 byte */
>  writel(np->tx_config, ioaddr + TxConfig);
> >>>>>>>>

Hmm, that little change worked a lot better. However thoughput is down to
700kb/s! Transferring files from the other machine to this machine is much
faster - 868kb/s.

In the logs, I only got *one* message from the natsemi driver (and this
happened when sending files from this machine to the other machine. No
problems receiving from the other machine.

Dec 25 17:28:12 tahallah kernel: eth0: Something Wicked happened! 0583.

But I just realised that the other machine I'm using has an 10 megabit
ethernet card (on the hub that one is shown on 10, my machine is shown as
100). I think this explains the throughput problem. When I get another 4
way power socket, I'll put my other machine (which has a 100 megabit card
in it) on the network and see if that makes a difference.

Cheers,
Alex
-- 
Huffapuff!

http://www.tahallah.clara.co.uk

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