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Date:      Thu, 08 Apr 1999 17:37:58 +0100
From:      Chris Stenton <jacs@gnome.co.uk>
To:        Brad Knowles <brad@shub-internet.org>
Cc:        Vladimir Litovka <doka@triton.kiev.sovam.com>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: 3Com 3C5x9 Network cards 
Message-ID:  <199904081637.RAA11506@hawk.gnome.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 08 Apr 1999 18:26:04 %2B0200." <19990408182604.028852@relay.skynet.be> 

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> On Thu, Apr 8, 1999, Vladimir Litovka <doka@triton.kiev.sovam.com> wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> 
>     Is this to imply that FreeBSD has problems with 3Com 3C905 (10/100
> Base-TX) cards as well?  I was under the impression that FreeBSD and
> Linux were the only two OSes outside of Microsoft to have semi-decent
> drivers for these cards, primarily because of the user community self-support.
> 

I have been using the 3C905B on a  3.1-STABLE  box for about 5 months as a
SAMBA and pc-nfs server and have had no problem with it.


Chris



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