Date: Fri, 20 Mar 1998 20:03:49 +0100 From: Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no> To: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@futuresouth.com> Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: okay, I WILL get out and help push Message-ID: <19980320200349.19485@follo.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980320104224.20071d-100000@shell.futuresouth.com>; from Matthew D. Fuller on Fri, Mar 20, 1998 at 10:44:51AM -0600 References: <23330.890411123@time.cdrom.com> <Pine.BSF.3.96.980320104224.20071d-100000@shell.futuresouth.com>
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On Fri, Mar 20, 1998 at 10:44:51AM -0600, Matthew D. Fuller wrote: >>> 2) I'm open to suggestions for a cheap Plug'n'Pray PCI Ethernet >>> card that I can pick up locally (CompUSA/Computer City). (PNP is >>> now supported in stable, yes?) >> >> Anything from 3COM or SMC should do the trick. > > I've had moderate sucess with my 3Com 3C905. It's not a great card, > but it works decently, at least at 10 Mbit. I'm going to disagree here. It is not a great _driver_, but as far as I've been able to tell, it actually is a great card. The 590/595 are OK cards, the 900/905 are great cards. They do full scather/gather DMA (and IIRC checksumming), leaving them open for a zero-copy implementation. The problem is that the driver only use them in 'compatibility mode', which doesn't exploit _anything_ - driving it at about the efficiency-level of an NE2000. If you're not willing to re-write the driver (and I don't think anybody else is going to), I think I'd rather go with a cheaper card - they're rather pricey (about the same as an Intel EtherExpress 10/100) compared to the low performance with the persent setup. Eivind. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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