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Re: hints on SMC network cards



* Hall Stevenson (hallstevenson@mindspring.com) [030506 13:51]:
> At 10:47 AM 5/6/2003 -0700, nate wrote:
> >3com is good too, and the default config of the 3coms is quite a bit
> >slower(I think there is a setting you can tweak) ...
> >... and as above I think there is a module paramter or kernel
> >option to flip which makes the card work at full speed(perhaps this
> >is the default these days I haven't done any performance testing of
> >the 3COM card since that one time 3 years ago)
> 
> 
> Can anyone point me in the right direction for finding these "tweaks" for 
> 3Com cards ?? I read through Donald Becker's 3Com page(s) and am Googling 
> "3com linux optimization" right now.

/usr/src/kernel-source-$(uname -r)/Documentation/networking/vortex.txt

I never needed any module parameters for my vortex cards; they autosense
by default and run at FDX 100Mbps here.

good times,
Vineet
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