Re: tlug: Freezing

[Scott Stone <sstone@example.com>]

On Fri, 22 Jan 1999, Chris Sekiya wrote:

> On Thu, 21 Jan 1999, Scott Stone wrote:
> 
> > Hm, YMMV... I get significantly better xfer rates with the ne2ks (isa and
> > pci) than with any 3com card.
> 
> Depends on the driver, which depends on the kernel.  You haven't tried any
> 2.1 kernels yet, have you?

no, but it looks like 2.2.0 is out or almost so... I'm going to try that.
Apparently upgrading from 2.0.36 -> 2.2.0 isn't too painful.

> 
> > Plus, some of the PCI ones will do 100MBit, too.
> 
> *blink* Please, dear God, no.  100baseTX ne2k cards are a sign of the end
> times.

I've used a PCMCIA 100baseTX ne2k clone card and it was okay... never
tried a PCI one at 100baseTX.

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Scott M. Stone <sstone@example.com>
Head of TurboLinux English / Systems Administrator
Pacific HiTech, Inc. (http://www.turbolinux.com)


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