From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Mar 20 11:04:04 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA29364 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Fri, 20 Mar 1998 11:04:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns1.yes.no (ns1.yes.no [195.119.24.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA29293 for ; Fri, 20 Mar 1998 11:03:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from eivind@bitbox.follo.net) Received: from bitbox.follo.net (bitbox.follo.net [194.198.43.36]) by ns1.yes.no (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id TAA02251; Fri, 20 Mar 1998 19:03:55 GMT Received: (from eivind@localhost) by bitbox.follo.net (8.8.6/8.8.6) id UAA12815; Fri, 20 Mar 1998 20:03:50 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: <19980320200349.19485@follo.net> Date: Fri, 20 Mar 1998 20:03:49 +0100 From: Eivind Eklund To: "Matthew D. Fuller" Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: okay, I WILL get out and help push References: <23330.890411123@time.cdrom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.89.1i In-Reply-To: ; from Matthew D. Fuller on Fri, Mar 20, 1998 at 10:44:51AM -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Fri, Mar 20, 1998 at 10:44:51AM -0600, Matthew D. Fuller wrote: >>> 2) I'm open to suggestions for a cheap Plug'n'Pray PCI Ethernet >>> card that I can pick up locally (CompUSA/Computer City). (PNP is >>> now supported in stable, yes?) >> >> Anything from 3COM or SMC should do the trick. > > I've had moderate sucess with my 3Com 3C905. It's not a great card, > but it works decently, at least at 10 Mbit. I'm going to disagree here. It is not a great _driver_, but as far as I've been able to tell, it actually is a great card. The 590/595 are OK cards, the 900/905 are great cards. They do full scather/gather DMA (and IIRC checksumming), leaving them open for a zero-copy implementation. The problem is that the driver only use them in 'compatibility mode', which doesn't exploit _anything_ - driving it at about the efficiency-level of an NE2000. If you're not willing to re-write the driver (and I don't think anybody else is going to), I think I'd rather go with a cheaper card - they're rather pricey (about the same as an Intel EtherExpress 10/100) compared to the low performance with the persent setup. Eivind. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message