From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 12 13:38:31 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id NAA19699 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 12 Mar 1996 13:38:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id NAA19690 for ; Tue, 12 Mar 1996 13:38:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id IAA29103; Wed, 13 Mar 1996 08:18:25 +1030 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199603122148.IAA29103@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: which PCI Ethernet card ? To: owensc@enc.edu (Charles Owens) Date: Wed, 13 Mar 1996 08:18:25 +1030 (CST) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Charles Owens" at Mar 12, 96 09:06:25 am MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Charles Owens stands accused of saying: > > I've been using the Compex ENET32/PCI card (DC21040 based) in two of my > servers for the past 6 months with good results. Is there some reason > why it shouldn't be working? Or perhaps you mean a different Compex model? > As DG said, if you have one, that's fine, just don't go buying any more because the new ones don't work. Matt Thomas was tearing his hair out trying to work out why they misbehave; we lost several W95 machines to the general PCI instability that they cause, so we're not going to use them again. > Incidentally, in a July 1995 review of 10-Mbit PCI NICs in "Network > Computing" this card tied the 3Com EtherLink III PCI for first place! I find that very amusing 8) When you consider how meaningless those benchmarks really are, and that the 'ed' driver and a WD8013 is just as capable of totally saturating an ethernet as a PCI card is. It's all about drivers, which is sad, because they never talk much about that 8( > Charles Owens Email: owensc@enc.edu -- ]] 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 [[