Date: Thu, 02 Oct 1997 08:51:25 -0700 From: David Greenman <dg@root.com> To: Jason Young <doogie@forbidden-donut.anet-stl.com> Cc: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>, =?KOI8-R?B?4c7E0sXKIP7F0s7P1w==?= <ache@nagual.pp.ru>, FreeBSD-current <current@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Which PCI Ethernet card is best for FreeBSD-current? Message-ID: <199710021551.IAA21135@implode.root.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 02 Oct 1997 09:43:00 -0000." <Pine.BSF.3.96.971002094152.2226A-100000@forbidden-donut.anet-stl.com>
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>> Intel EE Pro/100B, without question. Second choice, DEC DE500 and >> some clones. Never buy anything from 3Com. > >May I inquire as to why you don't like 3Com? They work for me, I've got a >mix of 3Com and DEC switching 10/100s around here with zero problems. Not speaking for Garrett, but the 3Com device drivers (ep/vx) in FreeBSD have had a long tradition of having various problems. In addition, the PCI 3Com cards aren't up to the performance levels that they are capable of; apparantly, 3Com won't release the information about programming the PCI DMA for them without an NDA (or at all??)...which means that they have to be used in "compatibility" mode, which I believe is programmed I/O (yech). -DG David Greenman Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project
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