From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 14 06:40:42 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA04012 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 14 Jul 1998 06:40:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from bytor.rush.net (lynch@bytor.rush.net [209.45.245.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA04007; Tue, 14 Jul 1998 06:40:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lynch@rush.net) Received: from localhost (lynch@localhost) by bytor.rush.net (8.9.1/8.8.8) with SMTP id JAA23316; Tue, 14 Jul 1998 09:40:24 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from lynch@rush.net) Date: Tue, 14 Jul 1998 09:40:22 -0400 (EDT) From: Pat Lynch To: Gary Roberts cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 3Com 3C589 Ethernet PC Card In-Reply-To: <199807131058.UAA10245@amor.wcs.uq.edu.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG having problems with a 3c589? thats weird, I have two of them and they work great. I'm actually using the ep0 driver (the one for the 3c509) with the PAO package. also, this might have been a better question for -questions instead of -hackers ___________________________________________________________________________ Pat Lynch lynch@rush.net Systems Administrator Rush Networking ___________________________________________________________________________ On Mon, 13 Jul 1998, Gary Roberts wrote: > I'm having occasional lockups when doing large NFS file transfers to/from > a 2.2.6-R Toshiba notebook using the above card and the zp driver. I've > followed the various discussions about how 3C509 NICs suck :-) and I'm > wondering if the 3C589 might be tarred with the same brush. > > I'd like to get a PC Card ethernet that doesn't lockup and I have the > opportunity to get rid of the 3C589 to another machine running Win95 so > I'm looking for informed opinions about what is regarded as the best > type of PC Card ethernet for FreeBSD. > > I understand there are ethernet/modem combo cards around. Anyone have any > experience with any of those under FreeBSD. Thanks for any advice. > > Cheers, > -- > Gary Roberts (gdr@wcs.uq.edu.au) > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message