Date: Tue, 06 May 1997 15:12:30 -0700 From: "Russell L. Carter" <rcarter@consys.com> To: Jaye Mathisen <mrcpu@cdsnet.net> Cc: dennis <dennis@etinc.com>, Tim Tsai <tim@futuresouth.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: if_de.c ???? Message-ID: <199705062212.PAA19364@conceptual.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 06 May 1997 13:35:18 MST." <Pine.NEB.3.95.970506130427.1963J-100000@mail.cdsnet.net>
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> > While I rarely agree with dennis, he's dead on with this one. I bought > 30-40 de cards for my 25 or so servers, now only to find it apparently a > dead-end driver, and the Intel card being the card-de-jour (or however > that's spelled). > > And so I'll start purchasing intel cards, and 8 months from now, the > Novell NE2000 cards will be the hot card to have. It *is* a (mostly?) volunteer effort, and it appears from here in the cheap seats that Matt got irritated at something or another, and no longer desires to keep de current, for whatever reason. The thing I don't understand is why the cold shoulder given to the 211xxx cards by Jordan and DG, among others. So what if the cpu utilization is higher? These nics are cheap, and not sole source, IMHO a real *good* thing. Russell
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