Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Wed, 22 Jan 1997 21:19:00 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Naoki Hamada <nao@sbl.cl.nec.co.jp>
Cc:        dnelson@emsphone.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Erroneous Ierrs from vx0
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSI.3.94.970122211831.15372A-100000@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <199701230130.KAA07619@sirius.sbl.cl.nec.co.jp>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Thu, 23 Jan 1997, Naoki Hamada wrote:

> Doug White wrote:
> >On Wed, 22 Jan 1997, Dan Nelson wrote:
> >>In the last episode (Jan 22), Doug White said:
> >>> I just purchased a 3com Etherlink XL PCI ethenet card and it's working
> >>> great on 2.2-BETA, except for one thing:
> 
> Note that current support for 3COM Etherlink XL PCI cards are only
> experimental because 3COM do not provide their technical
> reference. Though they are capable of transfer data in full bus-mastering
> mode, the vx0 driver does PIO for now. So their performance is poor
> despite their potentially high capability.

Is the de driver any better?

(this is next on my list -- a Kingston 21140)

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major




Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?Pine.BSI.3.94.970122211831.15372A-100000>