Kingston did the same thing. Their old cards used to be based on the Tulip
but they switched to the NE2000 a while back. AFAIK they kept the same model
number. (But they did clearly state that it was an NE2000 card on the box).
--Adam
:-----Original Message-----
:From: Chris Mauritz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
:To: Douglas Eadline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
:Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>;
:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
:Date: Monday, December 07, 1998 11:51 PM
:Subject: Re: Which 100Mb ethernet NIC?
:
:
::> From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Dec 7 14:01:06 1998
::>
::> On Sat, 5 Dec 1998, Mark Hahn wrote:
::>
::> > > Is that one of the 'new' FA310TX with the NetGear chip instead of the
::> > > DEC marked chip? Seems like I had some problems using the NetGear
::> > > marked chip. The DEC ones are great.
::> >
::> > tulip clones, such as the Lite-On chips that NetGear now ships in
::> > fa310tx cards, WORK FINE. they work fine. they work fine!
::> > they are tulip _clones_, only minor modifications of the original
::> > chips from DEC. they work fine. they work fine. yes, when a vendor
::> > comes out with a new stepping, you might need to update your driver,
::> > BUT THEY WORK FINE. there have been reports of interrupt-sharing
::> > problems with some tulip cards (clone or not), but there are fixes,
::> > even for the "heritage" 2.0 kernels.
::>
::> Work yes, perform like tulips, no. My netperf numbers between two
::> Lite On's are 75% of a tulip. For some this is OK, for other
::> who are used to line speed, this is not so good.
::>
::> I can post numbers if anyone is interested.
::
::The is completely misleading behaviour by Netgear. If you change the
::core chipset of a product, at the VERY LEAST, you need to change the
::model number of the product or have some way of discerning the new
::from the old. Simply sticking people with an inferior product is
::not acceptable.
::
::Chris
::
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