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Date:      Tue, 22 Apr 1997 15:12:33 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Jaime Bozza <wheelman@nuc.net>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Driver Question
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.970422151127.24344I-100000@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970422095052.21603A-100000@lepton.nuc.net>

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On Tue, 22 Apr 1997, Jaime Bozza wrote:

> 
> We've been running FreeBSD systems (Currently 2.1.7's and 2.2.1's) with
> 3C509 cards in them for a while.  I'm curious about the driver support for
> the 3C900 (Etherlink XL) card.  I know the support exists, but how *IS*
> it?  Even though LINT says the 3C509 support is buggy, we've never had an
> issue of the systems not working, crashing, etc...
> 
> Basically, is the 3C900 support mature enough to use in a live situation?

It worked okay for me.  I had a lot of input and output errors, although I
think this was linked to the cable I was using.

The 3c900 has very little onboard cache; if this machine is going to be
busy, you may not want to use this. 

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major




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