Re: natsemi.c (Netgear FA311 card) probmlems??

Re: natsemi.c (Netgear FA311 card) probmlems??

[Troy Benjegerdes]

On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 12:58:57PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> There are some improvements in the latest 2.4 test patch, 2.4.3-pre8.  I
> would be very interested in hearing feedback on that.  I finally got two
> test cards, FA311 and FA312, so I can work on it a bit too.

Okay, I finally got around to testing this on 2.4.4-pre1. for the 5 or so 
minutes I've been using it so far, it seems okay (I'm able to log in this 
time), and I'm running NetPIPE to check performance.

Perfomance isn't great (the peak bandwidth is 65 Mbps or so), but this
could be partially due to my switch or the other machine I'm testing it
with.

> 
> The 2.4.3-pre8 patch, against kernel 2.4.2, is available from
> ftp://ftp.us.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/testing/
> 
> This updated 2.4 natsemi.c merges the changes in Becker's latest, which
> should fix eeprom/mac address reading as you mention, and it also
> includes some power management fixes required on some boards. 
> Differences from 2.2 versions include locking updates and some other
> small differences.  Please test, if you have an opportunity.
> 
> (note you'll have to fix a screwup of mine in drivers/net/Makefile --
> you need to add net_init.o to export-objs before you can build net
> drivers as modules.  Building them into the kernel works fine.)
> 
> -- 
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> Building 1024     | a full moon on a dark night,
> MandrakeSoft      | and a smooth road all the way to your door.
> 

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natsemi.c still broken...

[Troy Benjegerdes]

On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 09:32:36PM -0500, Troy Benjegerdes wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 12:58:57PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> > There are some improvements in the latest 2.4 test patch, 2.4.3-pre8.  I
> > would be very interested in hearing feedback on that.  I finally got two
> > test cards, FA311 and FA312, so I can work on it a bit too.
> 
> Okay, I finally got around to testing this on 2.4.4-pre1. for the 5 or so 
> minutes I've been using it so far, it seems okay (I'm able to log in this 
> time), and I'm running NetPIPE to check performance.
> 
> Perfomance isn't great (the peak bandwidth is 65 Mbps or so), but this
> could be partially due to my switch or the other machine I'm testing it
> with.

Okay, I've been running with 2.4.4-pre1 for awhile now, and although the
driver does hang up on nfs traffic, it still has problems. After running
for awhile, it seems to have dropouts of server hundred milliseconds where
no packets go through. This is somewhat evident in interactive SSH
sessions, and causes clients connecting to the squid proxy I am running on
the machine to behave quite badly. (debian's 'apt' via the proxy is
particulaly bad)

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Re: natsemi.c (Netgear FA311 card) probmlems??

[Joseph Carter]

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On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 09:32:36PM -0500, Troy Benjegerdes wrote:
> > There are some improvements in the latest 2.4 test patch, 2.4.3-pre8.  I
> > would be very interested in hearing feedback on that.  I finally got two
> > test cards, FA311 and FA312, so I can work on it a bit too.
> 
> Okay, I finally got around to testing this on 2.4.4-pre1. for the 5 or so 
> minutes I've been using it so far, it seems okay (I'm able to log in this 
> time), and I'm running NetPIPE to check performance.
> 
> Perfomance isn't great (the peak bandwidth is 65 Mbps or so), but this
> could be partially due to my switch or the other machine I'm testing it
> with.

No, performance really is peaked about 65 Mbps or so at the moment.  I'm
currently using the FA312 here, which was massively broken with my FA312
until 2.4.2-ac which updated the natsemi driver.  I have a '311 in a P200
which worked fine before.  This is an AMD box, but I suspect the problem
was the '312, not the AMD.

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