NetGear FA310TX Rev D2 frustrations

[Daniel Schudel]

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It seems that there have been many problems with the NetGear
FA310TX NIC.  So that I don't bore you too much with another,
I'll cut to the chase about my card.

I have just installed a brand spanking new NetGear FA310TX NIC
(board rev D2) into my machine which runs
SMP 2.2.15pre9 ( patched with international crypto and Hedricks latest IDE).

I bring up eth0:
 - my 10/100 HUB reports a negotiated link of 100Mbps.  This is good.
 - I have network connectivity on both Tx and Rx.  Also good.
 - I FTP a large file on my private network. I expect blazing fast speeds,
    but I get a throughput that is roughly 1/7th that of my old
    10BaseT 3c900.  This is bad...

Given the research I have done _after_ I bought this $20 card, I am not
suprised that I am also experiencing problems.  But, it seems that
this situation is unique.  I could not find any previous report of the
100 Mbps FA310TX NIC behaving like a 1Mbps connection.

So I have tried everything everyone else has tried.  I even went as
far as to compile and try the driver NetGear supplies.

Here is some relevant information to report:
dmesg | tail -8
   Found Lite-On 82c168 PNIC at PCI I/O address 0xa400.
   tulip.c:v0.91g 7/16/99 becker@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov
   eth0: Lite-On 82c168 PNIC rev 32 at 0xa400, 00:A0:CC:5C:17:4C, IRQ 10.
   eth0:  MII transceiver #1 config 3100 status 782d advertising 01e1.
   eth0: tulip_open() irq 10.
   eth0: PNIC PHY status is 1a07a, media MII.
   eth0: Done tulip_open(), CSR0 00008000, CSR5 02560010 CSR6 810c2002.
   eth0: MII status 782d, Link partner report 40a1.

~dan/a.out 
   tulip-diag.c:v1.19 10/2/99 Donald Becker (becker@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov)
   Index #1: Found a Lite-On 82c168 PNIC adapter at 0xa400.
    Port selection is MII, half-duplex.
    Transmit started, Receive started, half-duplex.
     The Rx process state is 'Waiting for packets'.
     The Tx process state is 'Idle'.
     The transmit threshold is 128.

As the FTP transfer is in progress, printk reports:
   eth0: Transmit error, Tx status 7fff8200.
   eth0: Transmit error, Tx status 7fff8201.
   eth0: Transmit error, Tx status 7fff8200.
   eth0: Transmit error, Tx status 7fff8201.
   eth0: Transmit error, Tx status 7fff8200.
   eth0: Transmit error, Tx status 7fff8200.


Is this a problem that has already been seen?  If not, let me know
if I can send more debug information

Thanks,
- -dan

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