Date: Tue, 22 Apr 1997 15:12:33 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Jaime Bozza <wheelman@nuc.net> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Driver Question Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970422151127.24344I-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970422095052.21603A-100000@lepton.nuc.net>
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On Tue, 22 Apr 1997, Jaime Bozza wrote: > > We've been running FreeBSD systems (Currently 2.1.7's and 2.2.1's) with > 3C509 cards in them for a while. I'm curious about the driver support for > the 3C900 (Etherlink XL) card. I know the support exists, but how *IS* > it? Even though LINT says the 3C509 support is buggy, we've never had an > issue of the systems not working, crashing, etc... > > Basically, is the 3C900 support mature enough to use in a live situation? It worked okay for me. I had a lot of input and output errors, although I think this was linked to the cable I was using. The 3c900 has very little onboard cache; if this machine is going to be busy, you may not want to use this. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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