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SubjectRe: eexpress16 status?
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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