Re: hints on SMC network cards

[Kent West <westk@acu.edu>]

Hall Stevenson wrote:

> 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.
>
> Hall
EnJaeLove[westk]:/home/westk> apt-cache search nictool
mii-diag - A little tool to manipulate network cards
nictools-nopci - Diagnostic tools for many non-PCI ethernet cards
nictools-pci - Diagnostic tools for many PCI ethernet cards


EnJaeLove[westk]:/home/westk> apt-cache show nictools-pci
Package: nictools-pci
Priority: extra
Section: net
Installed-Size: 484
Maintainer: Alain Schroeder <alain@debian.org>
Architecture: i386
Version: 1.3.2-2
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.2.3-1)
Suggests: nictools-nopci
Filename: pool/main/n/nictools-pci/nictools-pci_1.3.2-2_i386.deb
Size: 142816
MD5sum: 668d16f65e1a56dd2f4778f4bfb71459
Description: Diagnostic tools for many PCI ethernet cards
These tools can help you to diagnostic problems with your ethernet cards
or - in some cases - give those cards the final hint, to work in your
network.
.
 alta-diag     : Diagnostic and setup for the Sundance "Alta" NIC
 eepro100-diag : Diagnostic and setup for the Intel EEPro100 Ethercards
 epic-diag     : Diagnostics and EEPROM setup for the SMC EPIC-100
 myson-diag    : Diagnostic and setup for the Myson mtd803 Ethernet chip
 natsemi-diag  : Diagnostic and setup for the NatSemi DP83815 Ethernet chip
 ne2k-pci-diag : Diagnostics and EEPROM setup for PCI NE2000 clones
 ns820-diag    : Diagnostic and setup for the NatSemi DP83820 Ethernet chip
 pcnet-diag    : Diagnostic and setup for the AMD PCnet/PCI Ethernet chip
 rtl8139-diag  : Diagnostics and EEPROM setup for RealTek RTL8129/8139 
chips
 starfire-diag : Diagnostic and setup for the Adaptec Starfire DuraLAN
 tulip-diag    : Diagnostic and setup for the Digital DC21x4* 
Ethercards chips
 via-diag      : Diagnostic and setup for the VIA Rhine vt86c100 and vt3043
                 Ethernet chips
 vortex-diag   : Diagnostics and EEPROM setup for the 3Com Vortex series
 winbond-diag  : Diagnostic and setup for the Winbond w89c840 ethercards
 yellowfin-diag: Diagnostic and setup for the Packet Engines Yellowfin 
chips


EnJaeLove[westk]:/home/westk> apt-cache show nictools-nopci
Package: nictools-nopci
Priority: extra
Section: net
Installed-Size: 224
Maintainer: Alain Schroeder <alain@debian.org>
Architecture: i386
Version: 1.3.2-4
Replaces: 3c5x9utils, wdsetup
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.2.5-13)
Suggests: nictools-pci
Conflicts: 3c5x9utils, wdsetup
Filename: pool/main/n/nictools-nopci/nictools-nopci_1.3.2-4_i386.deb
Size: 54844
MD5sum: e9dfe49c3f58ae78f02438847dfb70a4
Description: Diagnostic tools for many non-PCI ethernet cards
These are tools to diagnostic problems with your non-PCI ethernet cards.
Some card can be set up or EEPROM can be updated.
.
 3c515-diag    : Diagnostic program for 3Com 3c515 Ethernet cards
 3c5x9setup    : Setup program for 3Com EtherLink III Ethernet cards
 at1700-diag   : Diagnostic program for the Allied Telesis AT1700
 atlantic-setup: Setup program for AT/LANTIC DP83905 Ethernet cards
 atp-diag      : Diagnostic for Realtek RTL8002/RTL8012 pocket Ethernet
                 adapter
 eexpress      : Diagnostic program for Intel EtherExpress 16 cards
 el3diag       : Diagnostic program for 3c509 and 3c579 Ethernet cards
 e21-diag      : Diagnostic program for Cabletron E2100 Ethernet cards
 hp+-diag      : Diagnostic program for HP PC LAN+ (27247B & 27252A) cards
 ne2k-diag     : Diagnostics and EEPROM setup for NE2000 clones
 wdsetup       : Configuration utility for Western Digital and SMC Ethernet
                 cards
.
This package replaces the old 3c5x9utils and wdsetup packages.

--
Kent West (westk@acu.edu)
====
Windows: Where do you want to go today?
MacOS: Where do you want to be tomorrow?
Linux: Are you coming or what?