From owner-freebsd-mobile Wed Jul 23 22:03:17 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id WAA08708 for mobile-outgoing; Wed, 23 Jul 1997 22:03:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rocky.mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id WAA08703 for ; Wed, 23 Jul 1997 22:03:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from nate@localhost) by rocky.mt.sri.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) id XAA17461; Wed, 23 Jul 1997 23:02:56 -0600 (MDT) Date: Wed, 23 Jul 1997 23:02:56 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <199707240502.XAA17461@rocky.mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Richard Levenberg Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Difference between a 3C589C and a 3C589D In-Reply-To: <3.0.2.32.19970723171509.00957e70@elroy> References: <3.0.2.32.19970723171509.00957e70@elroy> X-Mailer: VM 6.29 under 19.15 XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Can anyone tell me what the difference between a 3COM 10BaseT -TP only > 3C589C and a 3COM 10BaseT -TP only 3C589D is? One has updated firmware which takes longer to reset (D). Other than that, they appear to be the same. But, you need a new driver in Win95 for the D model. > I have access to both and > want to sell one but dont know which one to keep. They both seem to work > well on my ThinkPad 560 running FreeBSD. FWIW, I have a 589B, a 589C, and a 589D. I don't have a preference for performance, but the connectors on the newer cards are a bit nicer. Nate