From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Sep 10 21:40:31 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mail.kyx.net (cr95838-b.crdva1.bc.wave.home.com [24.113.50.147]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 99F2B37B424 for ; Sun, 10 Sep 2000 21:40:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smp.kyx.net (unknown [10.22.22.45]) by mail.kyx.net (Postfix) with SMTP id 257021DC03; Sun, 10 Sep 2000 21:40:00 -0700 (PDT) From: Dragos Ruiu Organization: kyx.net To: shocking@houston.rr.com, Stephen Hocking , Kenneth Wayne Culver Subject: Re: What's the best PCMCIA Ethernet card? Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2000 21:36:49 -0700 X-Mailer: KYX-CP/M [version core00-mail-92] Content-Type: text/plain Cc: Adam , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG References: <200009102007.e8AK7KG15668@bloop.craftncomp.com> In-Reply-To: <200009102007.e8AK7KG15668@bloop.craftncomp.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <00091021403114.41956@smp.kyx.net> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 10 Sep 2000, Stephen Hocking wrote: > > > > > 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. > > > Benchmarked.... Host laptop, Sharp Acius A100 233 MMX, OS Linux Two cards same type/mfgr, cardbus and non-cardbus (linksys EtherFast): -Non Cardbus: 16Mbps transfer rate -Cardbus: 32Mbps transfer rate ymmv, --dr -- dursec.com ltd. / kyx.net - we're from the future pgp fingerprint: 18C7 E37C 2F94 E251 F18E B7DC 2B71 A73E D2E8 A56D pgp key: http://www.dursec.com/drkey.asc To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message