Date: Tue, 17 Dec 1996 11:33:57 +1030 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: green@fang.cs.sunyit.edu (Charles Green) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NIC confusion Message-ID: <199612170103.LAA23727@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <199612161646.LAA00451@fang.cs.sunyit.edu> from Charles Green at "Dec 16, 96 11:46:27 am"
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Charles Green stands accused of saying: > I have a question, maybe someone can help me out. I was reading > through some advertisements at some 10/100Mb NE2000 compatable NICs. Correct > me if I'm wrong but wouldn't a NIC running in NE2000 compatablility mode be > running at only 10Mb? Or is there a NE2000 spec. for 100Mb? No. "NE2000 compatible" just means it has a register set that looks like the 8390. The actual data rate is a function of the hardware on the card. > Charles Green, PRC Inc. -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[
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