Date: Fri, 1 Sep 1995 10:06:21 +0200 (MET DST) From: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> To: imb@scgt.oz.au (michael butler) Cc: pst@shockwave.com, bde@zeta.org.au, davidg@Root.COM, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: novell ne2000 cards with FreeBSD...opinions? Message-ID: <199509010806.KAA11766@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> In-Reply-To: <199509010756.RAA14071@asstdc.scgt.oz.au> from "michael butler" at Sep 1, 95 05:55:55 pm
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> Paul Traina writes: > > > OK, well it sounds like a 50-50 trade-off, these machines aren't going > > to be doing heavy ethernet operations, so the price savings ($25/card vs > > $100/card) is worth it (unless someone knows of a cheap source of WD cards > > in the SF bay area). To jump in... some NE2000 cards have a NE2000+ mode where they use shared memory, and I can get them here for about 60.000 lire (US$40). The problem is, not even Russ Nelson seems to know how to use that feature! Luigi ==================================================================== Luigi Rizzo Dip. di Ingegneria dell'Informazione email: luigi@iet.unipi.it Universita' di Pisa tel: +39-50-568533 via Diotisalvi 2, 56126 PISA (Italy) fax: +39-50-568522 http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/ ====================================================================
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