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Subjectoops Re: PCI netcards that are good for Linux
My mailer seems to have gone berserk... fixed now.

joelja

On Tue, 10 Jun 1997, Joel Philip Jaeggli wrote:

> To get the smc etherpower pci's to work in my machine (2.0.27) I had to
> get the newest tulip driver from:
>
> http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/tulip.html
>
> My question I guess would be if there are plans to merge the .73 driver
> into the kernel source tree. The one in 2.0.27 seems to be from the 1.2
> era.
>
> Performance wise I see 22.4 Mbps transfer rates between my pc and one of
> our sun ultra's...
>
> joelja
>
> On Tue, 10 Jun 1997, Martin Mares wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > > I'm curious about a certain PCI card that our work just got
> > > for a few of our machines. How do the SMC EtherPower PCI cards hold out under
> > > load and performance-wise in general and under Linux? I noticed it was based
> > > off a Digital chip and I vaguely remember hearing bad things on the list about
> > > lots of the 'tulip' cards that were as bad as the ne2000 cards.
> >
> > I didn't test 10Mbit SMC's, but the 100Mbit ones are really excellent.
> > 10.5 MByte per second between two PC's! (e.g., 3Coms on the same setup
> > were capable of transmitting approx. 7 MB/sec).
> >
> > On the other hand, I think such questions are a bit off-topic on this list.
> >
> > Martin
> >
>
> __________________________________________________________________________
> Joel Jaeggli joelja@darkwing.uoregon.edu
> Academic User Services consult@oregon.uoregon.edu
> ANTC & NSRC joelja@ns.uoregon.edu
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> "On two occasions I have been asked [by members of Parliament!], `Pray,
> Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right
> answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of
> confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question."
> -- Charles Babbage
>
>
>

__________________________________________________________________________
Joel Jaeggli joelja@darkwing.uoregon.edu
Academic User Services consult@oregon.uoregon.edu
ANTC & NSRC joelja@ns.uoregon.edu
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"On two occasions I have been asked [by members of Parliament!], `Pray,
Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right
answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of
confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question."
-- Charles Babbage



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