From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 10 17: 6:53 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from teapot21.domain3.bigpond.com (teapot21.domain3.bigpond.com [139.134.5.159]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C90F937B66D for ; Tue, 10 Oct 2000 17:06:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by teapot21.domain3.bigpond.com (NTMail 3.02.13) with ESMTP id ua970392 for ; Wed, 11 Oct 2000 10:06:01 +1000 Received: from DKBH-T-003-p-249-64.tmns.net.au ([203.54.249.64]) by mail3.bigpond.com (Claudes-Wet-n-Wild-MailRouter V2.9c 5/4398153); 11 Oct 2000 10:06:00 Message-ID: <39E3A7AF.27036DC6@iname.com> Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 09:35:11 +1000 From: Peter Ortner X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Sam Hays Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 3Com 3C509 References: <001b01c0319a$72a1b9e0$5ebb5d18@neo.rr.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG We've had fun with these cards with 3.4 and 4.0. Crappy performance was one bugbear, and reliability was another. These are definitely not limited to FreeBSD tho, Solaris Linux and MS Windows suffer to differing extents from these problems. We've had better behaviour from clone $20 NE2k's. Regards, Peter. ---- http://www.users.bigpond.com/portner (Web Page) port@iname.com (Internet E-mail) ICQ 3114573 Sam Hays wrote: > Is the 3com 3C509 Etherlink III ISA(the new windows driver calls it > etherlink 10) --card still buggy as hell with FreeBSD 4.1?Cause it > just kinda works with my stuff, sometimes theresometimes device not > found etc. Any answers or insight would be greatly appreciated. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message