Andrew Belov wrote:

>On Sun, 02 Jan 2005 10:46:09 +0100, Stephan Bucher wrote:
>
>>I have several PCI NICs with the RTL8029 chip. They all use the 
>>PCIND.OS2 driver, of which the current version is 2.2 (which is also 
>>shipped with eCS 1.2). I have, however, never (on many different PCs) 
>>succeeded with this driver; OS/2 gets stuck during boot, with eCS 1.2 
>>the DHCP times out and the network connection does not work. The remedy 
>>has always been to replace the driver by the 2.1 version.
>>I would like to know the experience of other people with PCIND.OS2 
>>version 2.2.
>>    
>>
>
>Had to patch it in order to get it working. The IRQ logic was screwed in
>2.2, and 2.1 was screened out for its transfer speed of 20 KB per
>second.
>
>The updated version (known as "2.2 patchlevel 2") is now available on
>Hobbes as RTL8029P.ZIP.
>  
>

Hi Andrew,

I presume that that rate of 20KB/second for version 2.1 of the RTL8029 
driver was a joke?
What real rates did you get with it and with the new patch 2 version?

FWIW, I know the 8029 is slow - running the optimum[?] case ramdrive to 
ramdrive gave the following results here with a single large[?] file:

 From Warp3 Connect FP40 [RTL8029-RH45/BNC-combo] to an 10/100 8139 in 
adjacent system running Warp4 FP16, via CAT5 2.5m crossover half-duplex:

    OS/2      Ctrl+Esc = Window List       Type HELP = help
    [D:\Desktop]dir "R:\Star Office51\help\01\shelp.dat"

    Volume in drive R has no label.
    Directory of R:\Star Office51\help\01

    24/12/00  14:46   15532030           0  shelp.dat
            1 file(s)   15532030 bytes used
                        67108864 bytes free
     systemtime = 00:51:31.810000
     timerstart = 0

    [D:\Desktop]copy "R:\Star Office51\help\01\shelp.dat" \\client272\mine
            1 file(s) copied.
     elapsed time = 83.410000
     systemtime = 00:52:55.220000

    [D:\Desktop]dir \\client272\mine\*.dat

    Directory of \\client272\mine

    24/12/00  14:46   15532030           0  shelp.dat
            1 file(s)   15532030 bytes used
     systemtime = 00:52:55.250000
    ---------------------------------
    15532030 bytes in 83.41 seconds equates to 186213 bytes/sec (181.84
    KB/sec)
    which is definitely better than 20KB/sec
    ---------------------------------
    [D:\DESKTOP]dir ..\ibmcom\macs\pcind.os2

    The volume label in drive D is OS2.
    The Volume Serial Number is A8AC:3014.
    Directory of D:\ibmcom\macs

    26/08/98  10:36      15868           0  PCIND.OS2
           1 file(s)      15868 bytes used
                       13386240 bytes free

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

 From Warp4 FP16[RTL8029-RH45/BNC-combo] to an 8139 in adjacent system 
running Warp4 FP16, via CAT5 2.5m crossover half-duplex:

    [C:\Desktop]dir "R:\Star Office51\help\01\shelp.dat"

    Volume in drive R has no label.
    Directory of R:\Star Office51\help\01

    24/12/00  14:46   15532030           0  shelp.dat
            1 file(s)   15532030 bytes used
                        67108864 bytes free
     systemtime = 02:14:26.250000
     timerstart = 0

    [C:\Desktop]copy "R:\Star Office51\help\01\shelp.dat" \\client272\mine
            1 file(s) copied.
     elapsed time = 84.340000
     systemtime = 02:15:50.590000

    [C:\Desktop]dir \\client272\mine\*.dat

    Directory of \\CLIENT272\MINE

    24/12/00  14:46   15532030           0  SHELP.DAT
            1 file(s)   15532030 bytes used
     systemtime = 02:15:50.640000

    Slightly SLOWER than W3Connect,
    only 184,159.7 Bytes/sec [179.84 Kbytes/sec] with the same driver as
    W3Connect.

Having now downloaded your latest patched version I'll run it against 
the same test here.

-- 
Regards,
Mike

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