Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2000 23:53:44 +0100 (BST) From: Robert Swindells <rjs@fdy2.demon.co.uk> To: shocking@houston.rr.com Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What's the best PCMCIA Ethernet card? Message-ID: <200009102253.XAA00953@fdy2.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <200009102007.e8AK7KG15668@bloop.craftncomp.com> (message from Stephen Hocking on Sun, 10 Sep 2000 15:07:20 -0500)
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> >> > Hi, I'd just like to say that I dont think non cardbus cards are capable >> > of doing more than 10bt speeds even if it talks 100bt. I have not met one >> > that did and I assume it is a limit of the pcmcia design. Just warning >> > you not to waste your money on one if you get near 10bt speeds already. >> > >My main reason for wanting to replace the wretched thing is that it >keeps on hanging when doing lots of writes under NFS (when it's a >client), even when the write size is reduced to 2k. Everyone's >currently banging away at the new SMP code, so rather than plague Bill >Paul with requests about the if_sn driver, I'm thinking of just >getting a more reliable card. I have had about 2MB/sec out of a Netgear FX410. This is a NE2000 clone that is supported by if_ed under 4-STABLE. This was under NT though not FreeBSD since I'm still running 3.5-STABLE on my laptop. Robert To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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