FWIW, I experienced such slowness with ep(4) too. Once I removed
DEBUG and DIAGNOSTIC from the kernel, it started to work zippy.
Worth checking.

Jaromir

(experienced with ep* at mca? with Intel 80386, FWIW)

Wojciech Puchar wrote:
> any reason why this card works deadly slow on 486/100 PCI+ISA machine.
> 
> tried ISA clock=PCI/3 to PCI/6 no change
> 
> max transfer 20kB/s through FTP, while telnet sessions goes smooth.
> 
> no packet loss with pings up to 3000, over 3000 100% packet loss.
> 
> this card works well on other machine
> 
> 
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> http://www.3miasto.net/~wojtek/pgp.txt
> 


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