On 26/02/2003, Attila Nagy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote To Roger Skjetlein: > I have at least 3 3com905 cards (don't know the exact subtypes) which > works, present you a link and a blazingly fast 6 kB/s transfer rate on a > fast ethernet network.
yah, you dont know. 3com *can* be ok, but usually they *suck*. I remember a discussion where one told "3com is cool, after breakage I got a new one within days on warranty" .. yeah, right, but isnt it better if they do NOT break in first place? Second, if you get re- placements from 3com it CAN HAPPEN that everything looks the same (including software serial numbers), but the firmware has changed in an unknown way and the driver doesnt work any longer. nuff said. > Older Intels had their bugs too, they locked up after some traffic sent > through them, but I think this was solved at the driver level after some > reading from the original Intel driver. dont speculate. probably you are talking about i82562 (integrated on i815) which had slightly different buffers in the chip and with this chip intel stopped handing out real specs. thus no "real" drivers can be written. one has to reverse engineer that, there are no free docs on it (at least those days). they all suck. ciao -- Philipp Buehler - <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - http://sysfive.com/ sysfive.com GmbH - UNIX. Networking. Security. Applications. Steilshooperstr. 184, 22305 Hamburg, Germany - GSM +49-179-1136646
