I'm using a Cyrix166 as my primary server, and I suspect my PCI NIC is too
fast for the old one... I've already modified the via-rhine driver to get
rid of some error messages and fixed some other stuff (but Don told me I
merely skipped the error checks... well I don't know, the files are the same
when I've copied 500MB so...), and now it copies a 500MB file over SMB in 6
minutes which makes around 12Mbit (previously, a 500MB file took 30 minutes
(because of NIC resets?)).

But still, my CD burning process hangs when transferring files over around
10MB, and I only burn 2x (IDE). I guess the NIC saturates the IRQ's, can
this be my problem?

Is it possible to do some waiting mechanism in the NIC driver to get other
interrupts processed? Or am I completely out in the blue now?

Kernel 2.2.12
DFE-530TX (two cards with twisted cable between, other card in Windows
machine)
The (self)modified via-rhine driver I use is at (same problem with original
driver though)
http://www.cs.umu.se/~c97men/linux/

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|  Martin "NetBus" Eriksson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
|  MSc CSE student, department of Computing Science
|  Ume� University, Sweden

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