[5270] in RedHat Linux List
Re: 3com Bommerang netcard
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steve Jardine)
Wed Nov 20 08:39:57 1996
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.95.961120074728.6123A-100000@ninja.zedalis.com>
Date: Wed, 20 Nov 1996 06:27:27 -0700 (MST)
From: Steve Jardine <jardine@goodnet.com>
To: redhat-list@redhat.com
Cc: Stephen Zedalis <tintype@zedalis.com>, Lars.Tolle@uni-c.dk
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On 20-Nov-96 Stephen Zedalis wrote:
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>We have switched to SMC EtherPower 10/100 9332DST cards. At 100BaseTx,
>they appear to be much faster cards than the 3Com at the same speed.
>However, they also have several problems. First, the (tulip) drivers are
>written by Don Becker. Same support issues. Second, it appears that
>the driver was written primarily for 100BaseTx and it was assumed that
>it would work with 10BaseT. Our testing shows severe problems at 10BaseT.
>We get several overrun frame buffer error messages if we try to run the
>cards at 10BaseT full duplex. One plus is that the driver comes with the
>kernel, the minus is that there have been several tulip.c patches in the
>latest set of kernels.
>
I am using a DEC Celibris Box (Pentium 133) with a 21140 Tulip Card
in it. I have it on a network that is heavily congested, and has about
every single protocol you could think of. There are currently a mixture
of 10baseT, 100baseT, and FDDI on this network, so I can imagine several
different speeds 'floating' on the network.
The machine has been hit hard with no problems whatsoever. Accesses to
the machine are resonably rapid. The kernel version is 2.0.21. I have
experienced absolutely no problems with the driver supplied with the
2.0.21 kernel.
Regards,
Steve Jardine
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E-Mail: Steve Jardine <jardine@goodnet.com>
Date: 11/20/96
Time: 06:27:29
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