From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262864AbTLOAyl (ORCPT ); Sun, 14 Dec 2003 19:54:41 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262868AbTLOAyl (ORCPT ); Sun, 14 Dec 2003 19:54:41 -0500 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.224.249]:62145 "EHLO main.gmane.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262864AbTLOAyk (ORCPT ); Sun, 14 Dec 2003 19:54:40 -0500 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: mru@kth.se (=?iso-8859-1?q?M=E5ns_Rullg=E5rd?=) Subject: Re: Sis900 ethernet dropping 70% packets Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2003 01:54:37 +0100 Message-ID: References: <200312142355.45631.andrew@walrond.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.1002 (Gnus v5.10.2) XEmacs/21.4 (Rational FORTRAN, linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:ds/j73dq1PSCSJLe/u8W4hjv7ps= Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Andrew Walrond writes: > I'm trying to install a little Via C3 machine with on-board Sis900 ethernet. > As usual, I booted my LNX-BBC rescue disk, configured eth0 and tried to scp > my distro over, but failed miserably. > > Pinging other hosts on the net sees 70-80% packets getting lost. > > LNX-BBC rescue cd uses a 2.4.19 kernel > > So then I tried a Trinity rescue disk, using a 2.4.21 kernel. Same thing. > > Anybody got experience of this? Googling gives wads of people with similar > sounding problems, mostly interrupt related, sometimes Vlan related (It's > plugged into a Cisco catalyst but I tried a x-over cable to my laptop with > the same result, so I don't think thats relevant), but don't see any > solutions. > > Is this a known-bad interface? The drivers sources don't seem to > have been touched for a long time which makes me think its unlikely > that a newer kernel would help, but who knows... I can only say that my laptop has a sis900, and I've never had any problems with it. I'd look for errors elsewhere. Maybe it's ACPI related. ACPI seems to be able to screw up anything. -- Måns Rullgård mru@kth.se