Re: tlug: Network card not found

[Scott Stone <sstone@example.com>]

On Fri, 11 Dec 1998, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:

> >>>>> "Scott" == Scott Stone <sstone@example.com> writes:
> 
>     Scott> On Fri, 11 Dec 1998, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> 
>     >> I've got 4 [3Com 3C9xxx] (all different), and never had a
>     >> fault.  Haven't tried at 100Mbits yet, but then NE2000 clones
>     >> won't work very well in that environment either.
> 
>     Scott> hm, all of mine max out at 700kb/sec, whereas the NE2000s
>     Scott> happily do 1000kb/sec regularly (unless talking to a 3com
> 
> Dunno what you're doing wrong; when attached to the same hub mine do
> 900-950kB, at least the last three tries (and that hub is pretty
> heavily trafficked, although possibly not at the moment, I assume your
> NECs are in the same boat).  I don't usually pay much attention,
> though, so I don't know what's "normal" for them.
> 
> But I can't use that much bandwidth.

well, 3coms can talk to each other just fine - but like I said, I only
have one left, and it will only talk to my NE2ks and eepro100s at
700-800kb/sec.  Sometimes less.

> 
>     Scott> card :) ).  And out of all the 3coms, all have failed
>     Scott> except one.  YMMV.
> 
> It does.

Seems like everyone else's does, too.  This is kind of like Chris and the
Adaptec cards - he's had a lot of bad experiences with the 2940s, whereas
I have not.  I guess some people just have bad karma towards certain
hardware or something.

Personally I'll keep buying eepro100s, unless I need to deal with macs, in
which case I'll either have to tweak around with the eepro100 driver to
make it handle appletalk ddp without shutting down the eth0 transmitter,
or get an NE2000 clone :)

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Scott M. Stone <sstone@example.com, sstone@example.com>
Head of TurboLinux Development/Systems Administrator
Pacific HiTech, Inc (USA) / Pacific HiTech, KK (Japan)


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