[vortex] 905C: 3c59x unusably slow / 3c90x fine

[Bogdan Costescu]

On Thu, 19 Apr 2001, Stefan Hoffmeister wrote:

> "Tiny" transmits will work fine - e.g. ssh / telnet to a host on the LAN
> works as expected -, but any attempt to transmit some more bits (10 MB
> file, remote X session) will result in throughput of about 1-2 KB/s.

My guess is that there is a media mismatch. Please read

http://www.scyld.com/network/vortex.html

and post the results of the mii-diag tool.
However, I would have expected some messages in /var/log/messages...

> I am going through a 10/100 hub;

What kind of hub ? Is it just a repeater (hub) or switch ?

Sincerely,

Bogdan Costescu

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