From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 12 09:25:12 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA26586 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 12 Feb 1998 09:25:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from geo.geocast.net (geo.geocast.net [128.177.240.120]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA26561 for ; Thu, 12 Feb 1998 09:25:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from castor@geocast.net) Received: (from castor@localhost) by geo.geocast.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA15299; Thu, 12 Feb 1998 09:24:54 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 12 Feb 1998 09:24:54 -0800 (PST) From: Castor Fu Message-Id: <199802121724.JAA15299@geo.geocast.net> To: mwhite@cmu.edu Subject: Re: PC Card Ether suggestions? Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG This was just discussed on freebsd-hackers. If you do a search on dejanews like ~g mailing.freebsd.* pcmcia ethernet you'll get a lot of hits. I've been using a 3com 3c589 and it works reliably, but the performance is pretty poor on a 486 dx2/50. I haven't gotten more than 500Kb/s on any OS, though FreeBSD did do better than Win*. I suspect that most 10/100 cards are a waste of money without Cardbus because the ISA-like PCMCIA interface just won't be fast enough. -castor To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe questions" in the body of the message