Subject: Re: Is the epic driver broken on 1.6 ?
To: Jerome Sobecki <sobek@chopin.sis.pasteur.fr>
From: Jason R Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>
List: tech-net
Date: 10/09/2002 07:39:30
On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 04:27:48PM +0200, Jerome Sobecki wrote:

 > When I use a 10 Mb connection, all is OK (I can have around 6 Mbps when I get
 > files from a local ftp server). But when I use a 100 Mb link, I can'thave
 > better than 300 kbps. And no collisions are detected.
 > Also, I have some unexpected "lost carrier", and a ping to another computer of
 > the local network takes around 6s, against less than 0.2ms with the 10 Mb link.

Eeek.  This definitely sounds like speed/duplex mismatch.  What do the LEDs
on the card indicate?

Anyway, I'll put my epic board into a machine and try it out soon'ish.  In
the mean time, can you please file a bug report with send-pr(1) so that this
doesn't get dropped in the cracks?

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        -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>