Hi, I was until recently using kernel 2.4.29 (hand-built) with eagle-usb 1.9.9 (Debian package 1.9.9-1), and all was fine. I was getting about 600 kB/s in real, useful, download rate, and about 80 kB/s upload.
Then yesterday one annoying bug in eagle-usb 2.1.1-1 was fixed, so I upgraded to 2.1.1-2 and kernel 2.4.30. I still connect to the Internet, DHCP works fine, upload is still about 80 kB/s, but download is now about 5 kB/s. Yes, five kilobytes per second. I used to go faster on my 33.6 modem. At first I thought maybe my ISP (Free télécom, unbundled line) was capping my rates in retaliation for the somewhat high use I make of uplink (a friend of mine uploads *large* photos on my gallery, and then publishes the URL for that gallery in various places), but I suppose they'd cap uplink rather than downlink. Then I did an eaglestat, just for kicks. Here's a snapshot of the result: ,---- | mirenboite:~# eaglestat | eagle-usb status display | ------------------------------------------------------------- | Driver version 1.9.9 | USB Bus : 001 USB Device : 002 Dbg mask: 0x0 | Ethernet Interface : eth3 | MAC: 00:60:4c:0e:67:0a | Tx Rate 0000000864 Rx Rate 0000006464 Crc 0000019723 | FEC 0000000138 Margin 0000000020 Atten 0000000018 dB | VID-CPE 0000000000 VID-CO 0000000028 HEC 0000000035 | VPI 0000000008 VCI 0000000036 Delin GOOD | Cells Rx 0000875592 Cells Tx 0000990300 | Pkts Rx 0000102245 Pkts Tx 0000113467 | OAM 0000000002 Bad VPI 0000005347 Bad CRC 0000019723 | Oversiz. 0000015712 | | Modem is operational | | mirenboite:~# `---- That's a lot of bad CRCs, isn't it? I suppose that's part of my problem. The Aten field stays at 18 dB, Delin stays GOOD, but the Bad CRC count keeps growing. Now for the fun part: I downgraded to 1.9.9-1 and kernel 2.4.29 (using the exact same packages that were previously installed), and I still get that ugly behaviour. Unfortunately I wasn't at home when I did the upgrade, so I'm not sure these bad CRCs started happening exactly when I upgraded. I did test connectivity, and found that it worked. I even tested uplink (by browsing said photo gallery), and was satisfied. So, uh, any ideas? This is an Eagle Fast 800, plugged into a Soekris mini-computer. I find it odd that the ISP would start sending me bad packets the very same day I upgrade, but hey, coincidences happen. On the other hand, I really did reinstall the previous kernel and eagle-usb-utils and eagle-usb-data packages, so presumably I have the exact same configuration as the one that worked. I'd be grateful for any help. Roland. -- Roland Mas Fate always wins... At least, when people stick to the rules. -- in Interesting Times (Terry Pratchett)
