From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Dec 16 17:04:08 1996 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id RAA21146 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 16 Dec 1996 17:04:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id RAA21131 for ; Mon, 16 Dec 1996 17:04:04 -0800 (PST) Received: (from msmith@localhost) by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.8.2/8.7.3) id LAA23727; Tue, 17 Dec 1996 11:33:57 +1030 (CST) From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199612170103.LAA23727@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: NIC confusion In-Reply-To: <199612161646.LAA00451@fang.cs.sunyit.edu> from Charles Green at "Dec 16, 96 11:46:27 am" To: green@fang.cs.sunyit.edu (Charles Green) Date: Tue, 17 Dec 1996 11:33:57 +1030 (CST) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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 [[