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

[Stefan Hoffmeister]

: On Thu, 19 Apr 2001 22:33:51 +0200, Stefan Hoffmeister wrote:

>What irritates me is:
>
>Options: force full-duplex.

It irritated the 3c59x driver, too.

After tinkering with the 3com DOS configuration tool, the "force
full-duplex" option is gone and 

* the 3c59x driver has a throughput of about 8,000 KB/s. 

* the dual-booted W2K SP1 with a 3com driver is still its usual
  "performance wonder" at 5,300 KB/s, everything else being equal.

* the 3c90x driver continues to work fine

I still find the following irritating:

* I never touched that card with a configuration tool.
  It has only ever seen W2K and Linux.

* 3com's own 3c90x driver handled the situation where the 3c59x driver
  failed perfectly fine.

Perhaps this could be added to the documentation / mentioned somewhere on
the web site(s)?