OT: Realtek; Was Re: Windoze crash (was Re: Well, I was at Fry's in CA...)

From: Fred N. van Kempen <waltje_at_pdp11.nl>
Date: Tue Jul 8 19:16:00 2003

On 8 Jul 2003, Frank McConnell wrote:

> I am pleased to be able to say that I no longer remember the details,
> but the problem was something like that the card had enough room in
> its buffer to hold no more than one received packet. If you sent it
> another one before the processor on its end got around to reading the
> packet out of it, one packet or the other got dropped (I'm thinking
> the one in the buffer got dropped so that the new one could be
> buffered).
Indeed, the SEEQ chipset (...) could only do one thing at a time, so
they sized the buffers accordingly. The Etherlink II had more buffer
space, but was crippled in the same way: it was single-tasked.

> If someone else out there remembers more, please do feel free to jump in.
I dont wanna ;)

--fred (who co-wrote that damn driver in linux, AND debugged it to get
        it a LITTLE bit working..)
Received on Tue Jul 08 2003 - 19:16:00 BST