Subject: Re: Performance of VIA RhineII (vr) driver in -current?
To: Chris Baird <cjb@brushtail.apana.org.au>
From: Rasputin <rasputin@idoru.mine.nu>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 04/25/2003 01:18:59
* Chris Baird <cjb@brushtail.apana.org.au> [0433 23:33]:
> > I haven't noticed problems with vr on EPIA-M, but I got audio
> > working under -current only and still can't get XFree going.. :-I
>
> The 800 is a EPIA board, not EPIA-M. The LAN controllers are
> different: VT6102 & VT6103, I believe.
I'm using a VT6102 in 10BaseT mode and it's pretty solid (current and an epia 800 board)
but it's connected to a 600Kbit cablemodem , so it's not exactly maxxed out..
> As for the problem...
>
> vr0: transmit aborted
> vr0: restarting
> vr0: transmit aborted
> vr0: restarting
> vr0: transmit aborted
> vr0: restarting
> [...]
>
> ...is that bad under 1.6.1, the 100BaseT connection only sees
> ~3kB/sec. With FreeBSD and Linux, I'd get the link at near
> saturation. (And considering the vr driver came from FreeBSD...)
>
> --
> Chris Baird,, <abuse@brushtail.apana.org.au>
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