[tulip] Netgear FA310TX problem

Tony Houghton tony@realh.co.uk
Thu, 5 Apr 2001 22:45:25 +0100


In <20010405153048.A362@realh.co.uk>, Tony Houghton wrote:

> I've got a pair of these cards connected by crossover cable, and I seem
> to be having a big problem with one of them under Linux. It's running
> very slowly (eg >20 minutes to transfer a 96MB MPEG to and from the
> other PC running Windows) and using loads of CPU power. I'm pretty sure
> it's a Linux problem, because if I run Windows on both machines the time
> for the above transfer drops to about 35 seconds.

I've just found out that there's no problem when the Windows PC is
running Windows 98, it's only if it's running Windows ME or 2000 that
the problem occurs.

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