Date: Thu, 08 Apr 1999 11:20:38 -0500 From: Jim King <king@sstar.com> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 3Com 3C5x9 Network cards Message-ID: <4.1.19990408111831.00975680@mail.sstar.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9904081812340.21679-100000@triton.kiev.sovam .com> References: <4.1.19990408100512.00ba7570@mail.supranet.net>
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At 06:16 PM 4/8/99 +0300, you wrote: >Hi! > >On Thu, 8 Apr 1999, Benjamin Gavin wrote: > >> this card working fine in 2.2.x and 3.0-STABLE boxes. It seems that >> sometime between 3.0-STABLE and 3.1-RELEASE that the code for this card was >> broken. > > I have had the same problem under 3.1-STABLE with ISA 3C509B cards - > FreeBSD did detect them, but had problems with sending/receiving data > through them. I've rolled back to simple ne2000 cards. > > BTW as I remember, FreeBSD had never worked good with this card's type. I always got much better performance with an NE2000 or SMC Elite16C than with the 3C509B. This wasn't just with FreeBSD - the 3C509B was also a bad performer under Windows NT. Jim To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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