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From: Robert Swindells <rjs@fdy2.demon.co.uk>
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	Stephen Hocking on Sun, 10 Sep 2000 15:07:20 -0500)
Subject: Re: What's the best PCMCIA Ethernet card?
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> 
>> > 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.

I have had about 2MB/sec out of a Netgear FX410. This is a NE2000 clone
that is supported by if_ed under 4-STABLE.

This was under NT though not FreeBSD since I'm still running
3.5-STABLE on my laptop.

Robert


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