Re: anyone see an old PC's ethernet card go very slow?

[Joshua Steele <jsteele@CodefusionIS.com>]

The cable would be my next guess.  Have you tried using another cable, or
perhaps a REAL hub?

What media did you select for the card (never dealt
with pcmcia, assuming its like standard ethernet setup)?  Its always best
IMHO to select 'media autoselect' when setting up the ethernet controller,
what did you set it up as?  If your forcing full duplex, etc. and the card
won't do it, then you might have a problem.  I have a machine here that
can only run in 10mbps half duplex, though full duplex is
supported..symptoms of it running in full duplex are exactly the same
symptoms you have...c...r...a...w...l...i...n...g

+-----------------------------------------------------------+
|Joshua Steele                Codefusion Internet Services  |
|jsteele@CodefusionIS.com     http://www.CodefusionIS.com   |
+-----------------------------------------------------------+

On Sat, 1 Jun 2002, OpenBSD baby wrote:

> Installing OpenBSD 3.1 on a Toshiba Portege 610CT laptop.
> Pentium 90. 24 megs of RAM.
> Got an "ne3" 10/100 ethernet pcmcia installed that has
> worked plenty fast on other laptops.
> But it's c...r...a...w...l...i...n...g, even from the floppy install.
>
> 10 minutes to get a 20meg file through a cross-connect cable
> from a PC right next to it.  (Not over internet.)
>
> I didn't think network speed was dependent on RAM/CPU.
> I've tried two different pcmcia cards - same result.
>
> If it was you, what would you check next?
> Anything the system can help, do you think?
> Couldn't be swap space, could it?