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Date:      Mon, 3 May 1999 22:15:17 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl>
To:        wes@softweyr.com (Wes Peters)
Cc:        shocking@prth.pgs.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Decent network cards for 100Mbit?
Message-ID:  <199905032015.WAA01206@yedi.iaf.nl>
In-Reply-To: <372DEF0E.67B76176@softweyr.com> from Wes Peters at "May 3, 1999 12:46:38 pm"

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As Wes Peters wrote ...
> Wilko Bulte wrote:
> > 
> > As Stephen Hocking-Senior Programmer PGS Tensor Perth wrote ...
> > >
> > > Having discovered that the Realtek chipset is a flatulent sack of pus, I'm
> > > wondering what results people have had with other PCI network cards, and what
> > > order of preference they'd put them in.
> > 
> > I'm quite happy with the 3Com Etherlink III aka 3C905.
> 
> I've been able to get 3c905s to work OK in 2.2.x and 3.x, but you can't
> buy them anymore.  The 3c905B you can buy now doesn't seem to work in
> any release.  Much work has been going on on the xl driver recently
> to make the 905B actually work, but I've just replaced my 905s and 905Bs.

I got older ones, work fine with 3.1-stable and -current here. Never seen
a 905B yet.

Groeten / Cheers,

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