From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 13 18:51:25 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id SAA06645 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 13 Nov 1996 18:51:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from time.cdrom.com (time.cdrom.com [204.216.27.226]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id SAA06619; Wed, 13 Nov 1996 18:51:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from time.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.8.2/8.6.9) with ESMTP id SAA09058; Wed, 13 Nov 1996 18:51:20 -0800 (PST) To: Jim Shankland cc: freebsd-questions@freefall.freebsd.org, mango@communique.net, hardware@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: 3C900 - 3C590 - 3C595 - SMC and PCI ethernet cards ??? In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 13 Nov 1996 17:45:14 PST." <199611140145.RAA14939@saguaro.flyingfox.com> Date: Wed, 13 Nov 1996 18:51:20 -0800 Message-ID: <9056.847939880@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > I'm disturbed by the recent reports of problems with these > cards. I really need a stable, solid, PCI-based 10/100 Mbit > Ethernet solution for FreeBSD. Is there anyone who can shed Well, before you get too worried about this, just let me point out that *all* of our SMC and Compex DC21040 based cards at Walnut Creek CDROM work flawlessly, and we've got something like 15-20 machines using them at 100BTX and 10BT speeds. They *do* seem somewhat more susceptible to bad cabling than most cards. I was seeing abnormally high collision counts on my home network and was rather puzzled by it until I thought to replace a terminator I suspected. No problems since. I'm rather curious myself at this recent spate of reports - perhaps SMC has done something hairbrained with their latest revision of adaptors? It might also help if those larger shops who are having problems would consider sending one of the failing cards to David Greenman - we can't fix what we can't see. :-) Jordan