From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Aug 27 23:34:27 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mail.HiWAAY.net (fly.HiWAAY.net [208.147.154.56]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 83DCD15309 for ; Fri, 27 Aug 1999 23:34:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@airnet.net) Received: from airnet.net (tc14-216-180-35-51.dialup.HiWAAY.net [216.180.35.51] (may be forged)) by mail.HiWAAY.net (8.9.1a/8.9.0) with ESMTP id BAA08072; Sat, 28 Aug 1999 01:33:31 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <37C782AB.B15C09F0@airnet.net> Date: Sat, 28 Aug 1999 01:33:15 -0500 From: Kris Kirby Organization: Non Illegitemus Carborundum. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.08 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.2-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Daniel O'Connor" Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Are the ethernet drivers time dependent? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Daniel O'Connor wrote: > > On 28-Aug-99 Kris Kirby wrote: > > It's not a bandwidth issue; it's a speed issue. I'm trying to find an > > extremely cheap way to get data in and out of a PC. I've got the > > National Semiconductor application sheets for the 8392(?) and plan on > > using one "cut in half": Half duplex, but split into seperate TX and RX > > lines. I'm also looking at a scaleable way to go up or down in speed, > > without dealing with async... A layer two device if you will. > > RS232? RS485? VERY cheap and the later is at least moderatly resistant to noise > :) Noise shouldn't be an issue. It's going to be handling "clean" data. By cheap, I mean $5 a pop or so. I've got a few 3C503s that I feel like cutting into. I'm going to be bearing the financial end of this project of mine, so I'm going to save where I can. :-) -- Kris Kirby ------------------------------------------- TGIFreeBSD... 'Nuff said. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message