From owner-freebsd-current Sat Nov 2 01:52:20 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id BAA27521 for current-outgoing; Sat, 2 Nov 1996 01:52:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id BAA27503 for ; Sat, 2 Nov 1996 01:52:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id KAA09690 for ; Sat, 2 Nov 1996 10:51:44 +0100 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id KAA01937 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org; Sat, 2 Nov 1996 10:51:43 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.2/8.6.9) id KAA27239 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org; Sat, 2 Nov 1996 10:26:06 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199611020926.KAA27239@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: 3c590 problem To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users) Date: Sat, 2 Nov 1996 10:26:06 +0100 (MET) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: from "Kenneth J. Dupuis" at "Nov 2, 96 02:34:00 am" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Kenneth J. Dupuis wrote: > Actually, I believe I am correct. He suggested a NE2000 card, which is > 16-bit ISA, rather than a 3Com 3c590, which is PCI. I do see the point in > using a SMC card, which is also PCI like the 3c590, but the NE2000 doesn't > "belong" here; it is not PCI. There are even PCI NE2000 clones around now, but you're right, they are behaving poorer than things like the Tulip-based ones. I think Michael was merely refering to the fact that the `ed' driver is much more stable than the `vx' driver. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)