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Date: Sat, 24 Jul 2010 10:54:02 -0400 From: Chris Fowler <cfowler@...postsentinel.com> To: Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu Cc: Bob Tracy <rct@...rkin.frus.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-net@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [BUG] dm9601 driver won't init device properly On Sat, 2010-07-24 at 10:44 -0400, Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu wrote: > Wow. An "ethernet" card that won't do an MTU of 1500 even under > Windows. May I > add this to my gallery of examples I use when people say "no vendor > could > *possibly* ship hardware that fscked up"? :) A lot of these "cards" are not meant for you and I. They are meant for casual desktop users that would never put any amount of load on them. About 6 years ago we needed some PCMCIA modem cards and bought 100 of them from a vendor for $25/ea. They started failing in the field. When calling they just could not sync up. Only a reboot could fix the problem. What we learned was that a combination of heat and other factors caused them to drift so much the timing was off. We replaced those in the field with Zoom 3075 at about $65/ea. These modems were not meant for our solution. They were meant for casual laptop users that needed to dial an ISP every so often. I was expecting them to work in a box that would stay up 24x7. They couldn't handle it. I wrote a perl program that used a TLS-4 simulator and would dial the modem constantly. The failures were too much. On the Zooms we would average 10 failures per 1000 calls. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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