Re: Help with ethernet and ram

[Goswin Brederlow <goswin.brederlow@student.uni-tuebingen.de>]

Jurriaan on Alpha <thunder7@xs4all.nl> writes:

> On Thu, Nov 15, 2001 at 01:43:51AM -0500, CiAsA S'Nuey Boark wrote:
> > Hi,
> >    I have a couple of quick questions.  I have recently purchaced an alpha 
> > pws500a.  I finally managed to get debian installed on it, but I seem to be 
> > having trouble with the network.

Try the diferent drivers for your NIC and different settings.

Especially the half/full duplex can be a big problem. I get 16KB/s per
nsf with the default driver on the bootdisk but 9 MB/s with custom
parameters and the alternate driver for my tulip card.

MfG
        Goswin