Date: Mon, 14 Oct 1996 11:21:27 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: nate@mt.sri.com (Nate Williams) Cc: babbleon@mercury.interpath.com, freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Working PCMCIA/CD-ROM/Modem/ethernet? Message-ID: <199610140151.LAA10890@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <199610131727.LAA27376@rocky.mt.sri.com> from "Nate Williams" at Oct 13, 96 11:27:01 am
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Nate Williams stands accused of saying: > > > I have a laptop. Not wanting to repeat earlier mistakes, I want to > > get a PCMCIA cards and devices that will WORK with my o/s of choice > > without having to go to a lot of extra bother. > > For ethernet, the 3Com 3C589 series are your best bet. For modems, most > of the modems cards work. FWIW, I'm using an "Xstreama" 28K modem (the cheapest I could find 8) and it works fine. I'm also using an Accton 2216 "NE2000" compatible ethernet card, but this required some changes to the 'ed' driver. Nate, what happened to the patches for this that I sent you and Soren for review? I never heard anything back on that. It would be nice to have them in the tree soon so that I could re-world my notebook... > > - ethernet > > 3Com cards are known performers. I get 600-800K/sec out of the 2216, so I guess it counts as a 'known performer' too. 8) > Nate -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] Collector of old Unix hardware. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[
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