From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262789AbTLNXzt (ORCPT ); Sun, 14 Dec 2003 18:55:49 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262790AbTLNXzt (ORCPT ); Sun, 14 Dec 2003 18:55:49 -0500 Received: from host213-160-108-25.dsl.vispa.com ([213.160.108.25]:15309 "HELO cenedra.office") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S262789AbTLNXzs (ORCPT ); Sun, 14 Dec 2003 18:55:48 -0500 From: Andrew Walrond To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Sis900 ethernet dropping 70% packets Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2003 23:55:45 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200312142355.45631.andrew@walrond.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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... Any suggestions apprieciated Andrew Walrond