From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Mar 1 07:22:42 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA21400 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Sun, 1 Mar 1998 07:22:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ifi.uio.no (0@ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA21346 for ; Sun, 1 Mar 1998 07:22:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dag-erli@ifi.uio.no) Received: from hrotti.ifi.uio.no (2602@hrotti.ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.15]) by ifi.uio.no (8.8.8/8.8.7/ifi0.2) with ESMTP id QAA17513; Sun, 1 Mar 1998 16:22:16 +0100 (MET) Received: (from dag-erli@localhost) by hrotti.ifi.uio.no ; Sun, 1 Mar 1998 16:22:15 +0100 (MET) To: Scot Elliott Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 2.2.6 for NFS server References: Organization: Gutteklubben Terrasse / KRST / PUMS X-url: http://www.stud.ifi.uio.no/~dag-erli/ Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit From: dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling Coidan Smørgrav) Date: 01 Mar 1998 16:22:14 +0100 In-Reply-To: Scot Elliott's message of "Fri, 27 Feb 1998 07:49:50 +0000 (GMT)" Message-ID: Lines: 18 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/Emacs 19.34 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Scot Elliott writes: > Hmm... well I've always avoided 3com cards in FreeBSD because of the > rather discouraging comments in LINT: > > # el: 3Com 3C501 (slow!) This card sucks *big* rocks through straws. The only way to make it go anywhere is gravity. The word around the campfire (and the impression one gets from their web site) is that 3Com won't even admit to its existence. IIRC from my Slackware days, the Linux docs say that you should never use this card even if you have no other option. > # ep: 3Com 3C509 (buggy) I have several of these (3c509 and 3c509B) and they work just fine. -- "I have a closed mind. It helps keeping the rain out." (Michael Press on a.s.r) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message