From: mru@kth.se (Måns Rullgård)
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Sis900 ethernet dropping 70% packets
Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2003 01:54:37 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <yw1xr7z6ew8i.fsf@kth.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 200312142355.45631.andrew@walrond.org
Andrew Walrond <andrew@walrond.org> 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
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2003-12-14 23:55 Sis900 ethernet dropping 70% packets Andrew Walrond
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2003-12-17 6:41 ` Len Brown
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