Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 14:30:48 -0400 (EDT) From: "Dan Ts'o" <dan@dna.tsolab.org> To: des@flood.ping.uio.no (Dag-Erling Smorgrav) Cc: erwan@netvalue.fr, des@flood.ping.uio.no, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ep0 *UTP* Message-ID: <199904301830.OAA05657@dna.tsolab.org> In-Reply-To: <xzpvheevuaz.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> from "Dag-Erling Smorgrav" at Apr 30, 99 08:26:28 pm
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> 3Com 3c509 NICs are unreliable. Some work, others don't. They are also > known to be temperamental, in that the same card may perform well in > one computer but poorly in another. Add to that the fact that the > driver is buggy (search the mailing list archives!), and what you get > is a hardware/software combination I cannot in good faith recommend to > anyone. If you need something cheap, go for an SMC or Kingston based > NE2000 compatible ISA card. You'll probably get it cheaper than the > 3c509, and it will work better (and be pnp-configurable to boot). Hmmmm.... I've deployed well over 3 dozen of the 3c509 in its various versions, with about a third on FreeBSD systems and I haven't seem the problems you are describing. They must work at some level because I know several universities that have used them exclusively, which means probably 100's of units per site. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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