Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 24 Jul 2002 12:09:54 -0600 | From | kwijibo@zianet ... | Subject | Re: 3com 3c996b-t support? |
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Jes Sorensen wrote:
>>>>>>"Steve" == kwijibo <kwijibo@zianet.com> writes: >>>>>> >>>>>> > >Steve> http://www.cs.uni.edu/~gray/gig-over-copper/ > >Steve> The 3com drivers are open-source though, which makes me less >Steve> hesitent. And the tigon3 drivers lack of documentation kind of >Steve> irks me. I would however like to stick with a mainstream >Steve> kernel driver cause the support is there if it is needed. I >Steve> guess I will give both versions a whirl. From just glancing at >Steve> the source of both, it seems that both versions support jumbo >Steve> frames which is really what I am after. > >Well did you look at the code? It's the infamous Broadcom bcm5700 > Just glanced at it.
>driver which is probably the worst driver code we have seen in the >Linux community for the last 5 years. Sure you can run it, but don't >come back and complain when you run into trouble. You will be a lot >better off using the tg3 driver, or better yet, getting a NIC thats >less buggy. > > Is the NIC hardware buggy or is it just the bcm5700 drivers?
Well that answers the question I was after, I will use the tg3 kernel drivers. I chose this card cause it had good performance tests on that web page. The SK9821 beat all the gigi NICs but it also costs about 4 times as much as any other.
Steve
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