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Re: 3COM Nic Cards
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric Bohn)
Wed Nov 4 09:38:31 1998
From: "Eric Bohn" <ebohn@apci.net>
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Date: Wed, 4 Nov 1998 08:38:55 -0600
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Well they work, but not "like a charm". I've found that the cards tend to
freeze up after continuous use. These freezes occur at normal 10Mbps/half
duplex operation be it under Windows or Linux. Therefore I assume it's a
hardware problem as opposed to a driver issue.
- Eric
-----Original Message-----
From: Matt Housh <jaeger@morpheus.net>
To: redhat-list@redhat.com <redhat-list@redhat.com>
Date: Tuesday, November 03, 1998 8:23 AM
Subject: RE: 3COM Nic Cards
>> folks.......a beautiful thing!!!!! The 90xb cards are either buggy or
>> don't work with RH. Get your hands on a 905tx if you can....works like
>
> Just thought I'd interject that this is far from true... I agree,
>the 905TX is a great card, no argument there. But the 905B-TX is just as
>good, arguably better. Granted, it takes a little bit more effort to get
>working, but not a lot, compared to some things. The only reason it
>doesn't work with linux currently is that the latest version of Donald
>Becker's driver for it hasn't been included in the kernel. If you download
>it and compile it in manually, it works like a charm, 10MBit or 100.
>
>$0.03 - Matt
>
>------------------------------------------------------------
>Matt Housh email: mhoush@utulsa.edu
>Microcomputer Specialist The University of Tulsa
>Engineering and Natural Sciences
>
> "Preserving the right to arm bears..."
>
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