Date: Fri, 6 Aug 1999 17:38:57 +0200 (MEST) From: Christian Kratzer <ck@toplink.net> To: Vallo Kallaste <vallo@matti.ee> Cc: Shawn Ramsey <shawn@megadeth.org>, Andriss <andriss@andriss.com>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Please comments about SMC 9432TX [Was: Re: 100mbit full-duplex capable card] Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.10.9908061734200.1803-100000@hirvi.toplink.net> In-Reply-To: <19990806173432.B17450@myhakas.matti.ee>
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Hi, On Fri, 6 Aug 1999, Vallo Kallaste wrote: > On Wed, Aug 04, 1999 at 03:57:06PM -0700, Shawn Ramsey <shawn@megadeth.org> wrote: > > > > Can someone recommend me a good 100mb full-duplex capable > > > ethernet card? > > > > > > I was thinking of either the fxp0 driver for the Intel etherexpress > > > (or whatever it was called) or the xl0 driver for 3Com's 905btx. > > > > Go for the Intel EtherExpress 10/100 PCI card(s). They are great cards, and > > work great under FreeBSD. > > How about SMC 9432TX "EtherPower II" cards? I have seen messages from > Jason R. Thorpe in the NetBSD lists that this card is superior and > performs better than the Intel EtherExpress 10/100. Well this can be > because of superior driver for this card. I'm asking because I can get > them and the price is lower than Intel ones. Thoughts ? we run the 9432TX cards (tx driver) in most of our systems and have been very satisfied. I cannot compare or rate agains the 3com or intel cards as we have none. Only on one occation we were not able to get the card running in a new mainboard we swapped into a machine. Did not have time to debug this as this was a production system. We just swapped in an old EtherPower I card with the de driver. The tx driver is included starting with FreeBSD 2.2.8 but we have successfully patched FreeBSD 2.1.5, 2.2.2 and 2.2.5 systems to run with this driver. No problems there either. I have a patch to include the tx driver in 2.2.5 if anybody is interested... Greetings Christian -- TopLink Internet Services GmbH ck@171.2.195.in-addr.arpa Christian Kratzer http://www.toplink.net/ Phone: +49 7032 2701-0 Fax: +49 7032 2701-19 FreeBSD spoken here! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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