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To: Mike Haertel <mike@ducky.net>
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Subject: Re: question about "ed" driver performance on ASUS SP3G & 486DX4/100 
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From: David Greenman <dg@root.com>
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Date: Sun, 10 Aug 1997 21:33:16 -0700
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>So: Is there anything special I should know about wd8013 cards
>and ASUS SP3G's and/or 486/100's?  Or am I just plain out of luck?
>In the latter case could anybody recommend a faster ISA ethernet
>card that's widely supported by the free OS's?

   It sounds like there is a problem that is special to the Asus SP3G. The
obvious thing to check for is the ISA bus speed being correct. As for the
wd8013, with its shared memory design, it is the fastest ISA ethernet card
that FreeBSD supports. The raw access speed to the shared memory should
be about 4MB/second - plenty fast enough to keep up with 10Mbps ethernet.

-DG

David Greenman
Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project