Re: tlug: 10/100base2 NICs for Linux

[Chris Sekiya <chris@example.com>]

On Tue, 16 Feb 1999, Jonathan Byrne wrote:

> Well, one was truly horrible (that was a DX, I believe).

DXs were extremely buggy silicon.  One would think that they were designed
by Oak ;)

Their second try worked much better.

The best thing about S3 cards was that S3 was quite forthcoming with
programming specifications.  Card X may have the best silicon in the known
universe, but if the driver is shitty then you've just wasted your money.

-- Chris

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