On Sat, 24 Mar 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Sat, 24 Mar 2001, Richard Hodges wrote:
>
> > For many (most?) people that may be practical. But what about
> > those of us with a 1RU system using fxp on the motherboard and
> > NEED the single PCI slot for something else? I suspect that
> > there are more of us than you might think.
> Richard,
>
> Well then I suggest you ALL start writing Intel every single day
> to RELEASE DOCS WITH NO NDA. Then this problem will go away.
That is probably the "right" thing to do, but like you, I'm not
going to hold my breath.
> AFAIK the XL driver for 3com card's performs just as well if not
> better then the intel cards. And gee funny enough the new dual AMD
> Athlon board from Tyan will sport onboard 3Com 10/100 FE.
Thanks for the tip on the XL driver. Over the years, I have seen
many questions about which driver/card was the best, and all the
answers were pretty vague, or suggested that Intel had the edge.
That's good news on the Tyan motherboard. The bad news is the price...
About $950 :-(
All the best,
-Richard
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