[vortex] 3com 3c556 Hurricane performance problems

[Donald Becker]

On 4 Sep 2002, Nicola Fankhauser wrote:

> I have a Dell Inspiron 8100 with a 3com 3c556 Hurricane ethernet
> adapter. With w2k I get almost 10Mbytes/s when transferring files, but
> with the linux 3c59x driver on kernel 2.4.18 it's only around
> 2-3Mbytes/s (tried both SMB and FTP) - is there something I can do to
> unleash the power of the hurricane? ;)

What is the driver detection message?
What does 'mii-diag' (or 'vortex-diag -m') report?

> lspci -vvv says this about my ethernet adapter:
> 
> ---
> 
> 02:06.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c556 Hurricane CardBus
> (rev 10)
>         Subsystem: 3Com Corporation: Unknown device 6456
>         Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV+ VGASnoop-
> ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
>         Status: Cap+ 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort-
> <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
>         Latency: 32 (2500ns min, 1250ns max), cache line size 08
>         Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 10
>         Region 0: I/O ports at e800 [size=256]
>         Region 1: Memory at f8ffdc00 (32-bit, non-prefetchable)
> [size=128]
>         Region 2: Memory at f8ffd800 (32-bit, non-prefetchable)
> [size=128]
>         Expansion ROM at f9000000 [disabled] [size=128K]
>         Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
>                 Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1+ D2+ AuxCurrent=0mA
> PME(D0-,D1+,D2+,D3hot+,D3cold+)
>                 Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=1 PME-
> 
> ---
> 
> please tell me if you need more info (vortex-diag, mii-diag etc.). thank
> you for your help in advance.
> 
> regards
> nicola
> 
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