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Re: PCI network cards
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alan Cox)
Fri Mar 29 09:53:34 1996
From: Alan Cox <alan@cymru.net>
To: I.J.G.M.Janssen@et.tudelft.nl (Ivo Janssen)
Date: Fri, 29 Mar 1996 14:21:31 +0000 (GMT)
Cc: submit-linux-dev-net@ratatosk.yggdrasil.com
In-Reply-To: <4jgp7g$h5f@elektron.et.tudelft.nl> from "Ivo Janssen" at Mar 29, 96 01:40:00 pm
> So: it works, but isn't this just a hack. I think I'm better of with a
> kernel which supports my PCI-card directly. Now, only some of the more
> expensive cards (3COM) are supported.
Probably not. I suspect any cheap PCI ne2000 probably only uses 16bit
transfers anyway. You are already getting the benefits of the faster bus.
Beyond that only a decent NIC chip will help.
Alan
