Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1998 05:43:00 -0800 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Jamie Bowden <jamie@itribe.net> Cc: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>, hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Good, cheap 100BaseT Ethernet cards? Message-ID: <199812151343.FAA05624@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 15 Dec 1998 08:39:02 EST." <Pine.SGI.3.96.981215083520.18639j-100000@animaniacs.itribe.net>
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> On Mon, 14 Dec 1998, Mike Smith wrote: > > > Not AFAIK. 100bT and ISA just don't get along, and the NE2000 > > programming model is such that you max out at about 10Mbps anyway. > > I have one 100mbit ISA card. It's got a chip with both HP and AT&T's logo > on it. It has two rj-45 ports on it, one for 10mbit, one for 100mbit. > The chip is labled : > > 100vg > 1821-1400 > 9427s 5543540 > > I have no idea who made it, or where it came from, as it was here when I > got here. I've never even put it in a machine to see how well it works, > but it's kinda cool, as I had never seen a 100mbit ISA card before. It's a 100VG-Anylan card, not a 100bT card. My point wasn't that 100Mbps ISA cards don't exist though, merely that the two don't get along. NatSemi make a 100Mbps chipset with an ISA interface, for example. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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