thks, Martin will investigate this On Mon, 2009-03-23 at 15:43 +0100, Martin Langhoff wrote: > On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 3:10 PM, Bryan Berry <[email protected]> wrote: > > We want to use the MSI Wind PC for the XS but it has one big problem. It > > only has 1 on-board NIC and no PCI slots. As you know, the XS requires 2 > > NIC's. We have tried several different USB NIC's and are having serious > > throughput problems. Is this issue one w/ the NIC or the fact that it is > > connected by USB? > > My main worry with USB-connected NICs would be reliability. If the NIC > is reliable, but the throughput a bit below-par, you can still > probably use it as the WAN NIC -- the throughput is likely to be > constrained upstream anyway. > > - When you say throughput problems... what are you getting? How bad > is it? Even if limited, would it be appropriate for the WAN port? > > - The problem may be specific to the driver or NIC hardware -- is > there any discussion on the kernel dev list about it? > > - The problem may be with the USB bus on the MS Wind, hardware or > drivers. Perhaps testing for bus throughput or interrupt handling > helps? > > - Have you tested the reliability of the devices? This may be a larger > problem. > > cheers, > > > martin -- Bryan W. Berry Technology Director OLE Nepal, http://www.olenepal.org
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