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

[Claude Pignol]

Ok lost but I have upgraded the Bios to 4.03 and it didn't fix the problem.
For the technical doc: I was looking for the tech doc of the board not 
the chip.
Cheers
CP.

Altmeyer, Klaus wrote:

>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
>
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>>-----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:
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>>>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.
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>>>
>>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
>>
>>IWR - Interdisziplinaeres Zentrum fuer Wissenschaftliches Rechnen
>>Universitaet Heidelberg, INF 368, D-69120 Heidelberg, GERMANY
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