Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 10 Jun 1997 10:07:46 -0700 (PDT) | From | Joel Philip Jaeggli <> | Subject | oops Re: PCI netcards that are good for Linux |
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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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- "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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