From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Sep 13 10:36:30 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from rover.village.org (rover.village.org [204.144.255.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C17CF37B423 for ; Wed, 13 Sep 2000 10:36:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from harmony.village.org (harmony.village.org [10.0.0.6]) by rover.village.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA65590; Wed, 13 Sep 2000 11:36:23 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost.village.org [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.9.3/8.8.3) with ESMTP id LAA89128; Wed, 13 Sep 2000 11:35:49 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <200009131735.LAA89128@harmony.village.org> To: Adam Subject: Re: What's the best PCMCIA Ethernet card? Cc: Stephen Hocking , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 09 Sep 2000 23:23:43 EDT." References: Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 11:35:49 -0600 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message Adam writes: : Hi, I'd just like to say that I dont think non cardbus cards are capable : of doing more than 10bt speeds even if it talks 100bt. I have not met one : that did and I assume it is a limit of the pcmcia design. Just warning : you not to waste your money on one if you get near 10bt speeds already. I've seen about 18-20Mb/s on the 100bt cards that I have. I think this is close to the theoretical max for pcmcia in a cardbus bridge (10MHz bus at 16bits/transaction). I think the max for an ISA bridge is more like 15-16Mb/s because the card is limited to the 8MHz (or 8.33MHz) speed of the ISA bus. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message