Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 3 Jun 1997 23:13:57 -0700 (PDT) | From | Dan Hollis <> | Subject | Re: eexpress16 status? |
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On Wed, 4 Jun 1997, Jon Lewis wrote: > What's the status of the eexpress16 and driver? The comments in the > source make it sound like the card is brain damaged, and cannot be made to > behave. I have one that's worked fine under Win31 for a few years, but > now that I finally got Linux on my wife's PC (P75), it's causing lots of > trouble...it works very slowly when it works, like 14KB/s over the ether, > and frequently locks up the system when trying to use tcpdump (promiscuous > mode).
Dump the eexpress. Intel's own drivers have problems with the card, the express16 is severely broken as far as I can tell.
> I have a box of SMC Ultra's...should I use them? Unfortunately, they're > 10baseT and the current setup is coax.
SMC Ultras are great. That's all we use. (Got a box of 50 at onsale.com)
-Dan
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