semi-ot: sis900 lan support

2003-03-25 Thread Alessio Sangalli
Hi. I've experienced some problems with sis900 ethernet performances. Though this is not *directly* linuxbios related, I think here I can find interesteds people. I'm here with my pcchips 810 motherboard, but I've found the same problem on other TWO motheboards. I load the sis900 module or I c

Re: semi-ot: sis900 lan support

2003-03-27 Thread Steve Gehlbach
Alessio Sangalli wrote: I load the sis900 module or I compile it into the kernel, but the performances are incredibly low: if I transfer a huge file, the transfer starts at 5MB/s more or less, but after few seconds it drammatically drops to 60KB/s. I would need more that two hours to transfer a

Re: semi-ot: sis900 lan support

2003-03-27 Thread Alessio Sangalli
Steve Gehlbach wrote: I tried a 954MB (ls -lh) file on pcchips 787cl+ (sis900, via C3, 320Mb ram), and it took 22:20 using scp, no compression. Since I have a 10baseT network, using ssh, and other traffic, this seems about right (700+ kb/sec). Kernel is 2.4.18, sis900 driver v1.08.02. Is

Re: semi-ot: sis900 lan support

2003-03-27 Thread Peter Stuge
On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 08:29:48PM +0100, Alessio Sangalli wrote: > Steve Gehlbach wrote: > > > >I tried a 954MB (ls -lh) file on pcchips 787cl+ (sis900, via C3, 320Mb > >ram), and it took 22:20 using scp, no compression. Since I have a > >10baseT network, using ssh, and other traffic, this seem