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SubjectRe: 3com 3c996b-t support?


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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