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- From: hagan@freya.cs.umass.edu (Craig I. Hagan)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: Need 3c501 driver
- Message-ID: <HAGAN.93Jan12132618@freya.cs.umass.edu>
- Date: 12 Jan 93 18:26:18 GMT
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- In-reply-to: becker@super.org's message of 11 Jan 93 21:00:06 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan11.210006.25237@super.org> becker@super.org (Donald J. Becker) writes:
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- From: becker@super.org (Donald J. Becker)
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- Date: 11 Jan 93 21:00:06 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan9.002313.12543@brainiac.mn.org> jrc@brainiac.mn.org (Jeffrey Comstock) writes:
- >In article <1993Jan7.174127.3075@super.org> becker@super.org (Donald J. Becker) writes:
- >>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.
- >
- >I have used 3c501's for a long time, and yes they suck, but you are totally
- >full of crap. They work fine for some applications. People are giving
- >them away, and they beat the hell out of a SLIP line, which is what you
- >would probably be running if you didn't have ether. Please just shut up.
-
- I am currently running mach/i386 on my box, with a 3c501 card.
- I see throughput of about 150 K/s which isn't bad at all.
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- considering the cost of the card, it is much better than 0 K/s
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-
- -- craig
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