From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Sat May 1 10:18:29 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 679DA16A4CE for ; Sat, 1 May 2004 10:18:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mta08-svc.ntlworld.com (mta08-svc.ntlworld.com [62.253.162.48]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C280343D48 for ; Sat, 1 May 2004 10:18:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from scott@tuatara.fishballoon.org) Received: from llama.fishballoon.org ([81.104.195.124]) by mta08-svc.ntlworld.comESMTP <20040501171830.ASJ22121.mta08-svc.ntlworld.com@llama.fishballoon.org>; Sat, 1 May 2004 18:18:30 +0100 Received: from tuatara.fishballoon.org ([192.168.1.6]) by llama.fishballoon.org with esmtp (Exim 4.32; FreeBSD) id 1BJy8A-000E2E-AB; Sat, 01 May 2004 18:18:26 +0100 Received: (from scott@localhost) by tuatara.fishballoon.org (8.12.11/8.12.11/Submit) id i41HIPTu024527; Sat, 1 May 2004 18:18:25 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from scott) Date: Sat, 1 May 2004 18:18:24 +0100 From: Scott Mitchell To: Markie Message-ID: <20040501171824.GA474@tuatara.fishballoon.org> References: <005d01c42eae$29a51b50$f700000a@ape> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <005d01c42eae$29a51b50$f700000a@ape> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.10-PRERELEASE i386 cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Intel PRO/100 CardBus II X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 01 May 2004 17:18:29 -0000 On Fri, Apr 30, 2004 at 01:25:01PM +0100, Markie wrote: > > The cards I am looking at are also 32 bit (the dongle ones). I was just > wondering if I will get any kind of major performance loss using 16 bit > cards. I can only find a Realport1? card (just says realport) and they're > 16 bit... and so is this FA410 card if I was to get a dongle for it > instead. Performance of 100Mbps Ethernet with 16-bit cards pretty much sucks. They'll attach to a 100Mbps network just fine, but the amount of data you'll be able to put through them will be much, much less, and probably consume a lot of CPU cycles with it. If you're not doing anything network-intensive, or only connecting to 10Mbps networks, this might not matter to you. However, if your laptop has CardBus slots and you're running FreeBSD 5 (no CardBus support in 4.x), you'll probably be a lot happier with a 32-bit card. Scott -- =========================================================================== Scott Mitchell | PGP Key ID | "Eagles may soar, but weasels Cambridge, England | 0x54B171B9 | don't get sucked into jet engines" scott at fishballoon.org | 0xAA775B8B | -- Anon