Date: Mon, 15 Dec 1997 23:51:31 -0800 (PST) From: Tom <tom@sdf.com> To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> Cc: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, Johan Larsson <gozer@ludd.luth.se>, Rob Nelson <rob@mag-net.com>, FreeBSD Hackers <hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: 3com 3c509 card Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.971215234937.3100A-100000@misery.sdf.com> In-Reply-To: <199712160244.NAA00629@word.smith.net.au>
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On Tue, 16 Dec 1997, Mike Smith wrote: > > I'd have to, too. But in my experience, the 3c509 is a whole lot > > faster than the NE2000 clones I've used. Of course, nowadays with > > fast processors, you don't see much difference, but it's a different > > story with 486/33's > > Nope. They're both PIO cards, and the 'ed' driver spits all over the > 'ep' driver. Any inversions you may have seen would have been > environmental relating to the different behaviour of the various chips > relating to bus traffic. In fact don't NE2000 cards have way more buffer space too? I know all NE2000 cards have a 16KB buffer, and I believe the 509 card is much less. Also, the ed driver supports shared memory cards like the SMC Ultra 16. Fastest ISA ethernet you can get. Tom
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