The exact steps to set the card up in linux. (KMM79125C0KM)

[Thomas E. Dodd /CSDC]

NETGEAR Technical Support wrote:
> 
> Hello Thomas,
> 
> Here it is.
> 

I have followed the steps for building the tulip driver in linux.

The card works some what.

I still have a large discrepency in the TX and RX speeds.

I get 800 KB/s+ for FTP transfers in to the box, but
only 80 KB/s for FTP transfers from the box.

This is an AMD K7-550 on a MSI board.

I constantly get messages like this from the driver when loaded
with debug enabled:

kernel: eth0: Oversized Ethernet frame spanned multiple buffers,
status 7fff0200!
kernel: eth0: Oversized Ethernet frame spanned multiple buffers,
status 008e0100!
kernel: eth0: Oversized Ethernet frame spanned multiple buffers,
status 7fff0200!
kernel: eth0: Oversized Ethernet frame spanned multiple buffers,
status 008e0100!

This is also causing NFS errors (server not responding messages).

Buy using "options=0x19" as a module parameter, the nfs errors
go away but the speed drops, without that option, speed is good
but the errors make the system unusable.

This machine is connected to a Sun machines running Solaris 2.6
through a ... router.

The machines never have troubles like this. My old RealTek card (PCI
NE2000)
had the same speed issues, but not the NFS problems.

I have tried your driver "tulip.c:v0.89K 8/8/98",
the old kernel driver "tulip.c:v0.89H 5/23/98",
the new kernel driver "tulip.c:v0.91g-ppc 7/16/99",
and the new release driver "tulip.c:v0.91 4/14/99"

all with the same results.

	-Thomas