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- From: becker@super.org (Donald J. Becker)
- Subject: Re: Need 3c501 driver
- Message-ID: <1993Jan7.174127.3075@super.org>
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- Organization: IDA Supercomputing Research Center
- References: <1993Jan6.031516.25491@brainiac.mn.org> <726375686snx@crynwr.com> <michaelw.726417607@mcshh.hanse.de>
- Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 17:41:27 GMT
- Lines: 32
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- In article <michaelw.726417607@mcshh.hanse.de> michaelw@mcshh.Hanse.DE (Michael Will) writes:
- >nelson@crynwr.com (Russell Nelson) writes:
- >> I am sure somebody out there has hacked a 3c501 driver for Linux. If
- >> you have one, please email it to me.......
- >
- >>Go buy yourself a real Ethernet card. You can get NE2000 clones for
- >>under $100 now...
- >
- >Not utterly helpful. suppose he has got the 3com for free becaues someone
- >bought a ' real ethernetcard' ?
- >
-
- It was a helpful comment. A thinnet cable and "T" connector are worth
- more than an ancient 3c501. Think of the 3c501 as an 8088 motherboard
- that "he got for free because someone bought a 'real motherboard'".
- It won't work with linux and you shouldn't even try.
-
- The 3c501 is an ancient product with documentation that's no longer
- being printed. It has a single packet buffer that is shared between
- transmit and receive. By this I mean that when you have a packet it
- cannot receive another packet. While you are offloading
- that packet it cannot receive a packet. While you are loading a new
- packet to transmit it cannot receive a packet. While you are waiting
- to transmit it cannot receive a packet. While... well, you get the
- idea -- you miss most packets. And I haven't even started describing
- the bugs.
-
-
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