On Thu, May 22, 2003 at 10:33:06PM +0000, Alain LIEFOOGHE wrote:
> Hello, i have a MEDION 7438 notebook, i have installed the 1.6P current. 
> it is the best current for it, all devices seems to be recognised. the 
> 1.6S don't recognise correctly the AC'97 via sound card, don't light the 
> optical usb mouse and the XFree86 4.2.1 don't recognise my NVidia 
> Geforce 488 Go. the ethernet card is a via rhine II. when i try to be a 
> nfs_client on a NetBSD 1.6.1 nfs server, the connection is established, 
> i can do an "ls" but when i want to copy a file to my notebook, it is 
> slow as an "escargot" and times hang on completely. When i use winXP 
> home edition with the netbsd 1.6.1 samba server, the same thing append.

Could be a speed/duplex negotiation problem.
Try to force the speed/duplex mode via ifconfig:
ifconfig <if> media 100baseTX
or
ifconfig <if> media 10baseT
or
ifconfig <if> media 100baseTX-FDX
or
ifconfig <if> media 10baseT-FDX

and see if one of these modes helps.

-- 
Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
     NetBSD: 24 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
--