From owner-freebsd-hardware Tue Dec 15 05:45:22 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA29442 for freebsd-hardware-outgoing; Tue, 15 Dec 1998 05:45:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (goldfish.pht.co.jp [210.171.55.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id FAA29437 for ; Tue, 15 Dec 1998 05:45:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id FAA05624; Tue, 15 Dec 1998 05:43:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199812151343.FAA05624@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Jamie Bowden cc: Mike Smith , Brett Glass , hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Good, cheap 100BaseT Ethernet cards? In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 15 Dec 1998 08:39:02 EST." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1998 05:43:00 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > 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