IIRC, there were certain models of the 905 that were certainly of the "just works" variety. But I also recall letter-designated variants that were ripe PITAs.
Generally speaking though, I have a fondness for the 905 series as well. -- ME2 On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 6:50 AM, John Aldrich <[email protected]>wrote: > Yeah. I used to think DEC Tulip chipset NICs were Da Bomb (mainly because > you could almost guarantee they'd be supported by early versions of Linux) > and then I found the 3C905 cards. I have a whole bunch of "pulls" of those > sitting in a supply closet and if an on-board NIC goes bad, I usually slap > one of those in and it "just works." > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Ben Scott [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Wednesday, September 22, 2010 10:33 PM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: Re: My whole network went down! > > On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 6:08 PM, Phil Brutsche <[email protected]> > wrote: > > 10-15 years ago 3com 3c905 10/100 PCI NICs used to have horrible > > problems autonegotiating with Cisco 2900XL switches, and probably other > > Cisco models too. I haven't seen this problem in quite a while. > > Interesting. I've always looked fondly on the 3C905. It used to be > my "go to" network card for years, until everything just started > having NICs on the mainboard. There are prolly still some 3C905's > kicking around at %WORK%, come to think of it. > > -- Ben > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to [email protected] > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to [email protected] > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
