AW: [vortex] RX overrun with 3COM 3c982

[Altmeyer, Klaus]

I heard from a colleague, that he solved the problem by updating the BIOS of
the Tyan K7X. The description of BIOS 4.03 contains: "Fix PCI IRQ routing".
We did not try it, because one customer told us, that he tried it, and the
system was even slower after the update. My colleague thinks, there has to
be some mistake doing the update. We will try it.

Klaus Altmeyer

> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von:	Bogdan Costescu [SMTP:bogdan.costescu@iwr.uni-heidelberg.de]
> Gesendet am:	Freitag, 15. November 2002 14:06
> An:	Altmeyer, Klaus
> Cc:	'vortex@scyld.com'; Claude Pignol
> Betreff:	Re: [vortex] RX overrun with 3COM 3c982
> 
> On Fri, 15 Nov 2002, Altmeyer, Klaus wrote:
> 
> > In my opinion the additional ethernet card changes the behaviour of the
> > PCI bus so that the onboard ethernet controllers are handled much
> > better. I hope this helps to find out more.
> 
> Thank you for the insight !
> 
> Do you have by any chance another 3Com card that you can plug in a PCI 
> slot and see if the behaviour of the on-board NIC changes ? This is just 
> an idea to see if it's 3Com vs. the world or 3c982 vs. others :-)
> 
> -- 
> Bogdan Costescu
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