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- From: ching@angelo.amd.com (Mike Ching)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: Beta TCP/IP
- Message-ID: <1992Aug27.221646.3008@amd.com>
- Date: 27 Aug 92 22:16:46 GMT
- References: <1992Aug25.233806.11161@morrow.stanford.edu> <714839549snx@crynwr.com>
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- In article <714839549snx@crynwr.com> nelson@crynwr.com (Russell Nelson) writes:
- >In article <1992Aug25.233806.11161@morrow.stanford.edu> bir7@leland.Stanford.EDU writes:
- >
- > Currently only the Western Digital Ethercard Plus and compatibles
- > are supported (wd80[01]3 boards). If you have a different ethernet
- > board you will either have to write your own driver or wait until
- > someone else does (There is someone who claims to be working on
- > drivers for many different ethernet boards.)
- >
- >Yes. I'm going to get a NE2000 driver going first, because they're
- >so ubiquitious and cheap. Any votes for what comes after that?
- >3Com's brand new 3c509 is a pretty high-tech card...
- >
- >-russ <nelson@crynwr.com> I'm proud to be a humble Quaker!
- >Crynwr Software Crynwr Software sells packet driver support.
- >11 Grant St. 315-268-1925 Voice
- >Potsdam, NY 13676 315-268-9201 FAX
-
-
- My biased vote would be for a PCnet-ISA driver (it's the NE2100 card
- in a chip). It's a low cost, high performance, bus master ethernet
- chip which we are agressively designing into PC motherboards. Depends
- on whether you're interested in existing systems or future systems.
- Sorry about the commercial.
-
- Mike Ching
-