Date: Tue, 22 Apr 1997 23:09:55 -0500 (CDT) From: Jaime Bozza <wheelman@nuc.net> To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Driver Question Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970422230807.6489A-100000@lepton.nuc.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970422201402.1074A-100000@localhost>
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On Tue, 22 Apr 1997, Doug White wrote: > The 900 is 10/100 as well, if I remember correctly. The 905 may be > better. (It may have less cache because the PCI bus is probed faster than > the ISA bus is...) The 900 is straight 10, the 905 is 10/100 ... (Interestingly enough, the 10/100 cards have special pricing right now from what I've seen) > The Intel EtherExpress Pro/100B is supported quite well in FreeBSD; also > any DE21x4x based cards (Kingston, SMC, Accton, Dayna, others) work very > nicely. Got the same recommendation from someone else. Thanks. :) > Is there a requirement for 100mbit? The EtherExpress is known to work at > 100 megabit. No requirement at this time, other than the fact that 10/100 cards have better pricing right now, and it'll allow me a better upgrade path at the point that I *DO* put parts of my system at 100Mbit. Jaime Bozza Nucleus Communications, Inc.
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