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- From: mycroft@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Charles Hannum)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: HP Ethernet driver
- Date: 17 Dec 1992 10:57:31 GMT
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- In article <1gn54hINNs6l@life.ai.mit.edu> I wrote:
- >
- > Based on the alpha NE/2000 (et al) code from Donald Becker and a
- > long, hard stare at the Crynwr HPPCLAN packet driver, I have
- > constructed an Ethernet driver for HP cards.
-
- I worked on it a little more, and I'm now getting quite reasonable
- performance. I'm not stupid enough to try to benchmark it, but under
- the same conditions it appears to get about the same performance as the
- RS/6000 I'm typing on right now.
-
- > Any interested parties are welcome to drop me a note.
-
- And yes, I've only been using Linux for 3.5 days.
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