From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 25 20:48:11 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA11029 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 25 Feb 1998 20:48:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA10955 for ; Wed, 25 Feb 1998 20:47:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id UAA28698; Wed, 25 Feb 1998 20:47:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Wed, 25 Feb 1998 20:47:49 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: dlr@viasoft.com cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PCI Network Card In-Reply-To: <072565B7.000E432E.00@nwebcorp.viasoft.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 25 Feb 1998 dlr@viasoft.com wrote: > I have a compaq proliant 3000 with 128MB of memory. The kernel doesn't > detect the memory, and with only 16MB of mem the machine screams. when I > have the kernel set to 128MB of mem, the machine runs like a dog. When I > take out the 3COM 3c509 ethernet card out the machine screams again. I had > a SMC ethernet PCI card laying around, the machine doesn't detect it. > > Question One: What is a good network PCI card that is fully supported with > 2.2.5? Digital-based stuff, i.e. Kingston, Dayna products. > Question two: Shouldn't freebsd support and ISA card with large amounts of > memory (I have a proliant 800 with 32MB of mem, same ethernet card and it > screams, it is running 2.1.6 also). There's more to this than it seems; ISA cards that do DMA need bounce buffering and that takes time. A PCI ethernet card can beat a ISA card any day of the week purely on bus bandwidth. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message