From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Sep 10 13: 7:37 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mail.houston.rr.com (sm1.texas.rr.com [24.93.35.54]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8495F37B423 for ; Sun, 10 Sep 2000 13:07:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bleep.craftncomp.com ([24.27.77.164]) by mail.houston.rr.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.537.53); Sun, 10 Sep 2000 15:09:21 -0500 Received: from bloop.craftncomp.com (bloop.craftncomp.com [202.12.111.1]) by bleep.craftncomp.com (8.11.0/8.9.3) with ESMTP id e8AK7QX19483; Sun, 10 Sep 2000 15:07:27 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from shocking@houston.rr.com) Received: from bloop.craftncomp.com (localhost [127.0.0.1] (may be forged)) by bloop.craftncomp.com (8.11.0/8.9.3) with ESMTP id e8AK7KG15668; Sun, 10 Sep 2000 15:07:20 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from shocking@bloop.craftncomp.com) Message-Id: <200009102007.e8AK7KG15668@bloop.craftncomp.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Kenneth Wayne Culver Cc: Adam , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What's the best PCMCIA Ethernet card? In-Reply-To: Message from Kenneth Wayne Culver of "Sun, 10 Sep 2000 01:40:25 EDT." Reply-To: shocking@houston.rr.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2000 15:07:20 -0500 From: Stephen Hocking Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > > 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. > > My main reason for wanting to replace the wretched thing is that it keeps on hanging when doing lots of writes under NFS (when it's a client), even when the write size is reduced to 2k. Everyone's currently banging away at the new SMP code, so rather than plague Bill Paul with requests about the if_sn driver, I'm thinking of just getting a more reliable card. Stephen -- The views expressed above are not those of PGS Tensor. "We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the Complete Works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true." Robert Wilensky, University of California To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message