Re: What's the best PCMCIA Ethernet card?

2000-09-13 Thread Warner Losh
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Adam writes: : Hi, I'd just like to say that I dont think non cardbus cards are capable : of doing more than 10bt speeds even if it talks 100bt. I have not met one : that did and I assume it is a limit of the pcmcia design. Just warning : you not to waste your

Re: What's the best PCMCIA Ethernet card?

2000-09-13 Thread Warner Losh
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Stephen Hocking writes: : My main reason for wanting to replace the wretched thing is that it : keeps on hanging when doing lots of writes under NFS (when it's a : client), even when the write size is reduced to 2k. Everyone's : currently banging away at the new SMP

Re: What's the best PCMCIA Ethernet card?

2000-09-13 Thread Stephen Hocking
Odd. The sn card is my main card these days and I've not seen any NFS performance issues. Maybe you have an interrupt problem? I use the Megahertz XJ10BT, btw. Which card are you using? I was doing NFS last night on it with little hassle on a -current kernel from last night. The

Re: What's the best PCMCIA Ethernet card?

2000-09-13 Thread Warner Losh
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Stephen Hocking writes: : The card's a "Megahertz (CC10BT/2)", according to pccardd. I had to manually : put the IRQ in the /etc/pccard.conf file. The kernel code is from the : PRE_SMPng tag. Hmmm - I kind of suspect interrupt issues. The dmesg is as : follows, the

Re: What's the best PCMCIA Ethernet card?

2000-09-11 Thread Fred Clift
I have had about 2MB/sec out of a Netgear FX410. This is a NE2000 clone that is supported by if_ed under 4-STABLE. I use a linksys ect2 card and get about the same (it's also an ne2000 clone). Fred -- Fred Clift - [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Remember: If brute force doesn't work, you're just not

Re: What's the best PCMCIA Ethernet card?

2000-09-10 Thread Stephen Hocking
Hi, I'd just like to say that I dont think non cardbus cards are capable of doing more than 10bt speeds even if it talks 100bt. I have not met one that did and I assume it is a limit of the pcmcia design. Just warning you not to waste your money on one if you get near 10bt speeds

Re: What's the best PCMCIA Ethernet card?

2000-09-10 Thread Robert Swindells
Hi, I'd just like to say that I dont think non cardbus cards are capable of doing more than 10bt speeds even if it talks 100bt. I have not met one that did and I assume it is a limit of the pcmcia design. Just warning you not to waste your money on one if you get near 10bt speeds

Re: What's the best PCMCIA Ethernet card?

2000-09-10 Thread Dragos Ruiu
On Sun, 10 Sep 2000, Stephen Hocking wrote: Hi, I'd just like to say that I dont think non cardbus cards are capable of doing more than 10bt speeds even if it talks 100bt. I have not met one that did and I assume it is a limit of the pcmcia design. Just warning you not to waste

Re: What's the best PCMCIA Ethernet card?

2000-09-09 Thread Adam
Hi, I'd just like to say that I dont think non cardbus cards are capable of doing more than 10bt speeds even if it talks 100bt. I have not met one that did and I assume it is a limit of the pcmcia design. Just warning you not to waste your money on one if you get near 10bt speeds already. On

Re: What's the best PCMCIA Ethernet card?

2000-09-09 Thread Kenneth Wayne Culver
I've seen cardbus cards do almost a full 100 mbit, but regular pcmcia cards can't do much at all. = | Kenneth Culver | FreeBSD: The best NT upgrade| | Unix Systems Administrator | ICQ #: 24767726 |

What's the best PCMCIA Ethernet card?

2000-09-06 Thread Stephen Hocking
Preferably 10/100. This old Megahertz CC10BT doesn't seem to be terribly quick. Stephen -- The views expressed above are not those of PGS Tensor. "We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the Complete Works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the