From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 6 7: 5:25 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hostigos.otherwhen.com (mavery-gw.pernet.net [205.229.2.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 57DA1153A0 for ; Tue, 6 Jul 1999 07:05:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mavery@mail.otherwhen.com) Received: from mail.otherwhen.com (mail.2.229.205.in-addr.arpa [205.229.2.19] (may be forged)) by hostigos.otherwhen.com (8.8.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id JAA11338 for ; Tue, 6 Jul 1999 09:07:08 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <199907061407.JAA11338@hostigos.otherwhen.com> Received: from PORKY/SpoolDir by mail.otherwhen.com (Mercury 1.45); 6 Jul 99 09:05:25 -0600 Received: from SpoolDir by PORKY (Mercury 1.45); 6 Jul 99 09:05:07 -0600 From: "Mike Avery" To: Date: Tue, 6 Jul 1999 09:05:02 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: Linksys 10/100 PCMCIA Ethernet car Reply-To: mavery@mail.otherwhen.com In-reply-to: <000501bebae4$988c6480$58a00618@way2fast.com> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.12) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 19 Jun 99, at 23:17, Preston Garrison wrote: > Where could i find some information on getting PCMCIA ethernet cards, > specifically the Linksys 10/100 working under FreeBSD 3.1? This isn't so much a FreeBSD comment as a NIC comment.... I'm using a few LinkSYS PCI cards, and I like them and recommend them. However, I'd suggest against using the LinkSys 10/100 cards. Based on my good luck with the PCI cards, I got one of their PCI cards, and found the performance leaves a lot to be desired. It was in my Compaq laptop for about 15 minutes before it went back to the store. At 100mbps, it was slower than many 10mbps ISA and PCI cards. The bottleneck seems to be the PCMCIA bus. It's a slow bus. If you have a newer laptop that supports CardBus, look into Xircom's Cardbus cards, or Intel's for that matter. Xircom's are about 4x as fast as the LinkSYS. As always, your mileage may vary, depending on OS, drivers, and phase of the moon. Mike ====================================================================== Mike Avery MAvery@mail.otherwhen.com (409)-842-2942 (work) ICQ: 16241692 * Spam is for lusers who can't get business any other way * A Randomly Selected Thought For The Day From 'The Code of The West, A Cowboy's Guide to Life' by Texas Bix Bender The wildest critters live in the city! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message