Comment 9 for bug 7615

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Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 19:07:30 +0200
From: Christoph Hellwig <email address hidden>
To: Arcangelo Labianca <email address hidden>, <email address hidden>
Cc: Debian Bug Tracking System <email address hidden>
Subject: Re: Bug#268167: kernel-image-2.6.8-1-k7: limits ethernet connections to 100 Kbit/s

> On 2 different systems with the same (sid) Debian distribution the
> connection speed is limited to (more or less) 100 Kbit/s when using
> 100 Mbit/s Ethernet cards.
>
> I have tried 2 different network cards on a machine and another card
> on a different machine (all 100 Mb/s cards) but with the same result.
>
> When I start the SAME systems (choosing from Lilo boot menu) the kernel
> 2.6.7-1-k7 all works as expected (connection at 100 Mbit/s), whereas
> when I started the kernel 2.6.8-1-k7 the connection is 1000 times slower.
>
> I don't know if the problem is common to the other flavours of the 2.6.8-1
> kernel.

Maybe instead you could provide some basic information instead of the
silly severity.. That would be dmesg and /proc/interrupts for the
working and non-working case, and quite important aswell what driver
you're using.