Topic: VIA RHINE and WINDOWS XP PRO

[ssirio]

Hi all,

First, im italian and my english is very bad.

I want to share with all my experience with a strange problem!

I have build a machine with a mainboard with VIA chipset, integrated video and LAN, Athlon 2000XP, 256MB Ram, 2 Maxtor 80GB.
I have installed on that machine a SME 5.6.
I have configured the SME like a Domain controller with roaming profiles.

Then i have connected to the network and tested with my machine (Windows 2000 SP4), i have used the SME for about 10 days in a network with about 12 pc, Windows 98, Windows 2000 and other linux without any problem.

The 11th day i have installed a machine with Windows XP Professional!!!

With this machine i have this problem: downloading a file from the SME server (using SMB) the speed is 7-8MB/s, uploading file to SME the speed is 200KB/s.

After infinite tries (i have lost about 5 days!!!) i have found the problem: the integrated nic of the SME server have problem receiving (VIA-RHINE VT6102) from Windows XP!

I have added a RTL8139c on the SME and disabled the VIA and all works perfectly!

I dont know if the problem is the network card, the model of the network card, a bug in the module or other options. I dont have time to test all the possibilities.
In the fact: Only Windows XP wont upload files with this VIA VT6102!!!

I hope this short post can help anyone could have the same problem!

Bye

[Mike Mattos]

I had a similar problem with a new Realtek card, it refused to work with my DSL modem!

Grabbed an old 10mb SMC card out of the scrap heap and the everything was fine!

My suggestion, stick to old tested & true network adapters for LINUX unless you are being paid by the hour!

Mike

[matsk]

There is an hiden Bandwith Limiting in Windows XP that could be the cause. Read the article :
"How to Disable QoS Packet Scheduler Bandwidth Limiting in Windows XP"
http://support.earthlink.net/mu/1/psc/img/walkthroughs/windows_XP/6800.psc.html


/Mats