On Fri, 23 Mar 2001, Donnie Jones wrote: > I found this card on www.shopper.com > > LINKSYS ETHERFAST 10/100 > PCCARD NETWORK CARD > Price Per Unit: $39.99 > Mnfr. Part #:PCMPC100 > > www.egghead.com/category/inv/00035336/03279569.htm > That's the link for the card. > > Please let me know if anyone has heard of problems > with this pcmcia card, or success, thanks again to > all...
I had such a card and I had three beefs with it: * on some 10Mbps half-duplex networks performance was *very* bad. A typical example is the network on which I was unable to get more than a 200kb/s (yes, 200 kilobits/second), while everyone else was routinely able to achieve >8Mb/s. That was from another machine on the LAN and very surprisingly it was faster to download things from the internet (so presumably talking to some router on the LAN). I had no problem on my home network though! * I bought it because it supports 100Mb/s in full-duplex and my home network supports it through and through. But it's a 16bit card so i was never able to get past 10-12Mb/s. That's pretty frustrating. * I broke the dongle. It's the usual story: the cable got stuck somewhere, the cord pulled hard on the dongle, and now, although nothing looks broken, the card does not work anymore (unless I push hard downward on the dongle while I try to use the laptop with the other hand). Since then I read that this model has a reputation of having a rather fragile dongle. I have also used 3c589 cards and I never had any performance problem with them (including on the network mentioned above). One of them has a dongle that has ben beaten up pretty badly multiple times and is all out of shape. But it still works. Not the bad side: if I unplug the RJ-45 it thinks it switches to BNC mode and I have to eject/reinsert it to get my network connection back. But that may be a driver bug (2.4.0test9). Actually I'm still looking for a replacement for my PCMPC100. Currenly I'm looking for a _32bits_ 10/100Mb/s card. Maybe one of the net 3coms with an XJack. But these are really much more expensive :-/ -- Francois Gouget [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://fgouget.free.fr/ 1 + e ^ ( i * pi ) = 0
