From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 6 16:44:37 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id QAA25577 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 6 Nov 1997 16:44:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from mongoose.cs.unm.edu (mongoose.cs.unm.edu [198.59.151.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id QAA25572 for ; Thu, 6 Nov 1997 16:44:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cfaehl@cs.unm.edu) Received: from enterprise.cs.unm.edu(really [198.59.151.20]) by mongoose.cs.unm.edu via smail with smtp id for ; Thu, 6 Nov 1997 17:44:28 -0700 (MST) (Smail-3.2 1996-Jul-4 #3 built 1997-Mar-7) Received: from avarice.cs.unm.edu(really [198.59.151.252]) by enterprise.cs.unm.edu via smail with esmtp id for ; Thu, 6 Nov 1997 17:44:27 -0700 (MST) (Smail-3.2 1996-Jul-4 #18 built 1997-Feb-28) Message-Id: X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: Doug White cc: Varshavchick Alexander , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 3C905 Ethernet card In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 06 Nov 1997 12:53:29 PST." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 06 Nov 1997 17:44:00 -0700 From: "Chris Faehl" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > On Thu, 6 Nov 1997, Varshavchick Alexander wrote: > > > Would you please tell whether the 3C905 ethernet card can be used under > > FreeBSD and if so where the 3C905 driver can be found? > > Yes, the 3c905 is supported. The driver (vx) is built into the system. > > Doug White | University of Oregon > Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant > http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major > > Are there problems using this card under 100BaseT? I'm asking because I've seen *abysmal* performance under 100BaseT (no, I don't think it's the half-duplex/full-duplex issue - ifconfig -a reports simplex. Should I trust that?). I get numerous NFS disconnects, etc. This is FreeBSD 2.2.5 release. Works great under 10BaseT, but since I've got the bandwidth out there, I'd like to use it. -- Chris Faehl (cfaehl@cs.unm.edu)