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Re: 3Com ethernet card not being detected
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jon Lewis)
Thu Jun 13 06:43:22 1996
Date: Thu, 13 Jun 1996 00:34:37 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jon Lewis <jlewis@inorganic5.fdt.net>
To: Alan Cox <iialan@iifeak.swan.ac.uk>
cc: hpa@zytor.com, submit-linux-dev-net@ratatosk.yggdrasil.com
In-Reply-To: <m0uTm5Q-0009eyC@iifeak.swan.ac.uk>
On Wed, 12 Jun 1996, Alan Cox wrote:
> > 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
Is anyone aware of a well supported tulip based card that sells in multi
packs (around 5) with a 10mb hub? We've been going through 3com 3c509b
5pk+hubs cause for about $550 you get 5 cards and a LinkBuilder/12
stackable hub.
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