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Re: 3Com ethernet card not being detected

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alan Cox)
Wed Jun 12 14:14:59 1996

From: iialan@iifeak.swan.ac.uk (Alan Cox)
To: hpa@zytor.com
Date: 	Wed, 12 Jun 1996 10:19:36 +0100 (BST)
Cc: submit-linux-dev-net@ratatosk.yggdrasil.com
In-Reply-To: <hpa.31be3b2f.I.use.Linux@freya.yggdrasil.com> from "H. Peter Anvin" at Jun 12, 96 03:40:46 am

> If your systems have PCI and you think you may go to 100Base-TX in the
> future, you may want to consider the 3Com 3c595 instead.  Only about
> $30 more.

Or SMC etherpower and other tulip based cards. The benchmarks (ttcp) say the
etherpower is faster and has less CPU load

Alan



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