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Date:      Sun, 26 Jul 1998 22:34:44 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>
To:        mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith)
Cc:        rjs@fdy2.demon.co.uk, mike@smith.net.au, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: AMD PCNet/FAST cards; suppliers?
Message-ID:  <199807262234.PAA19067@usr01.primenet.com>
In-Reply-To: <199807262126.OAA11963@antipodes.cdrom.com> from "Mike Smith" at Jul 26, 98 02:26:03 pm

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> > >Recognising isn't so much the battle as working with them.  But yes, 
> > >please do.  (File PR, naturally).
> > 
> > The driver in stable works fine with both the PCnet PCI-II and the
> > PCnet-FAST reference boards from AMD.
> 
> That's very interesting.  Reports and experience have suggested that 
> some implementations don't work, but it's good to know that we do 
> function correctly with the reference implementations.

You should talk to Doug Ambrisko about this.

Running 2 of these cards at 100 resulted in less than desirable
throughput.  I believe there were also problems with the hardware
autodetection, unlike the 82558 part.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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