From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261347AbTJMDAX (ORCPT ); Sun, 12 Oct 2003 23:00:23 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261354AbTJMDAX (ORCPT ); Sun, 12 Oct 2003 23:00:23 -0400 Received: from fw.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:3051 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261347AbTJMDAW (ORCPT ); Sun, 12 Oct 2003 23:00:22 -0400 Date: Sun, 12 Oct 2003 20:03:30 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Domen Puncer Cc: zwane@arm.linux.org.uk, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 3c59x on 2.6.0-test3->test6 slow Message-Id: <20031012200330.1d5f1d8b.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <200310130428.21170.domen@coderock.org> References: <200310061529.56959.domen@coderock.org> <200310130222.03175.domen@coderock.org> <20031012173702.57eea934.akpm@osdl.org> <200310130428.21170.domen@coderock.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.4 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Domen Puncer wrote: > > On Monday 13 of October 2003 02:37, Andrew Morton wrote: > > Domen Puncer wrote: > > > Tried a bunch of 2.5.x kernels... no better. > > > Then i tried 2.4.22... and my nic still doesn't work fast. > > > > There's some stuff in Documentation/networking/vortex.txt telling you how > > to locate and run vortex-diag and mii-diag. > > Should have read this before, sorry. > > options=8 (autonegotiate) solves my problem. (driver could default to that?) > Sorry for wasting your time. The eeprom has a field which defines the default, and the driver honours that. I have a suspicion that the 3com windows just ignores the field. You can reset the eeprom default with 3com's DOS-based setup tool.