On Sat, 8 Apr 2000, Chris Wagner wrote: > Speaking of the SMC cards, I ran SMC EtherEZ's 10BaseT on ISA and got some > weird behaviour from time to time. When I first set it up, things were > great. Getting 7Mbps ftp transfers. But this began to decline and then > finally flucuate. Before I turned off the network it was varying from > 2-4Mbps.
Wow, I thought we were the only ones who experienced that problem. I had assumed it was a bad card because we only had 2, one of which just stopped working one day, and the other started to have the problem you describe. That was about a year or so ago, maybe a little longer. Unfortunately, I can't say if the card did it when initially used in the machine, as it was built and in use before I started working here. I had tried using a different kernel, or different driver (at first, that seemed to have made a difference, I think we used the 8309 driver originally and switched to a different driver, don't remember offhand because it was a while ago, but after a while the same problem showed itself). We eventually shelved the card and just replaced it with a 3com Vortex and have been trouble-free ever since. I don't know if you noticed this, but the transfer problems seemed to be one-way, outgoing. Incoming transfers occured at the proper speed, but outgoing was extremely slow. -Leigh --- Leigh Koven CyberComm Online Services [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cybercomm.net/ http://www.thegovernment.net/ (732) 818-3333 "Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end" - Semisonic
