[linux-help] Re: FW: looking for cheap 100baset cards

[Jonathan Hall <jonhall@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dlink cards are pretty generic... they may work fine, but won't be very
high-performance cards.

If you want a *good* card, get a 3com or a Tulip-based card.


On Mon, Jun 19, 2000 at 02:40:30PM -0500, Michael Kirk wrote:
> Goto bestbuiy and get the dlink
> 
> 
> ummm 3\508 I believe isb the model that what I used in linux
> 
> since I could not get my 3com to work
> 
> 
> At 02:18 PM 6/19/00 -0500, you wrote:
> >In our recent discussions on 3com Cards, I ran across this message:
> >--dwh
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: owner-linux-net@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >[mailto:owner-linux-net@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Andrew Morton
> >Sent: Saturday, June 17, 2000 12:55 AM
> >To: Brian
> >Cc: linux-net@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >Subject: Re: looking for cheap 100baset cards
> >
> >
> >Brian wrote:
> > >
> > > It's a good card and hasn't given me any flack since the Apr15 drivers.
> > > Of course, I've only tested it on the one server, so that may change when
> > > we use them in a quartet of well abused squid servers starting next week.
> >
> >Good to hear...
> >
> >The current drivers can cause an oops if the card's interrupt line is
> >shared with another device.   It's really obscure and I can't reproduce
> >it here even after pumping half a gigapacket through it, but we have a
> >fine oops report which shows it :(
> >
> >I'll have a 2.2 fix out in the next few days, but that won't help people
> >who use older drivers.
> >
> >The moral: don't share 3c905/3c905B/3c905C IRQ lines with other PCI
> >devices in kernel 2.2.
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