On Mon, 19 Mar 2007, Benjamin Scott wrote:
> On Mon, 19 Mar 2001, Rich Payne wrote:
> > True...however (IIRC), the driver on 3Com's site only supports a small
> > subset of the cards that Becker's driver(s) supports, and 3com's only
> > works on i386, whereas Becker's works on multiple archs. It's a pretty
> > pathetic attempt.. in that respect they are right down there with Intel.
> > However I must admit I do like the 3C905[bc] cards.
>
> Could well be. But, I'm curious: How many card vendors have actually
> written and support their own Linux drivers? Most of the ones I've seen have
> relied on independent implementations, written by Donald Becker, more often
> then not. :-)
True...and they deserve credit for having the vision to do
that.....however, as is usual the community built version is
superior.
--rdp
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