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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.

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\\  sometimes you're behind.      \\  mike@smith.net.au
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