From owner-freebsd-mobile Wed Sep 18 21:33:18 1996 Return-Path: owner-mobile Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id VAA29834 for mobile-outgoing; Wed, 18 Sep 1996 21:33:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.crl.com (mail.crl.com [165.113.1.22]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id VAA29802 for ; Wed, 18 Sep 1996 21:33:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rocky.mt.sri.com by mail.crl.com with SMTP id AA13391 (5.65c/IDA-1.5 for ); Wed, 18 Sep 1996 21:33:18 -0700 Received: (from nate@localhost) by rocky.mt.sri.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) id WAA15849; Wed, 18 Sep 1996 22:25:52 -0600 (MDT) Date: Wed, 18 Sep 1996 22:25:52 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <199609190425.WAA15849@rocky.mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams To: sameer Cc: nate@mt.sri.com (Nate Williams), freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 3com pcmcia etherlink question In-Reply-To: <199609190422.VAA03333@lachesis.c2.net> References: <199609190415.WAA15806@rocky.mt.sri.com> <199609190422.VAA03333@lachesis.c2.net> Sender: owner-mobile@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk [ Breaking the network connectors on the 3Com PCMCIA ethernet cards ] > I have the C. It doesn't seem all that robust to me, having > broken two of them already. Know of any other options for this sort of > thing? Be gentler on the connector. Patient: "Doctor, doctor, it hurts when I do this." Doctor: "Don't do that." Seriously, I've had both my 3Com cards and have never had any problems with them, and the older of the two is a year and a half old. If you be careful with them, they'll last a long time. Almost *all* PCCARD with external connectors have the same problem. It's a simple problem with size. When things get that small and cheap, they are easily broken. Nate