On Wed, Oct 04, 2000 at 05:27:19PM +0200, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 04, 2000 at 03:33:54PM +0200, Feico Dillema wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I very strange behaviour when trying to install and run
> > NetBSD-1.5_ALPHA2 (and latest kernel on 1.5 branch) on an old
> > 486 laptop. Initially I expected hardware trouble, but I think I
> > reuled that one out (tried three different machines and three network
> > cards. Also, installing with 1.4.2 bootfloppies goes just fine).
> > 
> > The trouble is with the ep driver for 3c589 3Com PCMCIA ethernet cards
> > (with pcic at isa). Driver configures ok, but ftp gets a troughput of
> > about 7Kbs on a quiet 10Mbs ethernet. I cannot see anything straneg
> 
> Is it 10baseT ? maybe the boards configs full-duplex and the remote end
> half-duplex (or the opposite) ?
AFAIKS both ends configure as half-duplex as they should. Also tried a
more high-end switch to rule out buffering problems between 100baseT
and 10baseT ports. What stuns me is that these network cards work just
fine in my thinkpad (attached to the same switch). Also, NetBSD-1.4.2
works just fine.

The link light goes out after receipt of a burst (of about 17Kbs) of
packets (it's not an activity light). Each time a few secs before the link
goes down, filesystem activity stops (I ran a `ls -R /` in the
background while trying to do an ftp to test this) and continues after
the link light blinked.

I'm clueless. Any ideas?

Feico.