Just as an aside, I will use nothing but SMC EtherPower II 10/100 NIC's. More expensive than 3Com's, but they run on anything, they are faster than hell, and the Linux driver (epic 100) has been around for a long time. And, you don't have to worry if 3Com is going to get all sticky about releasing enough info to build a good module in the future. Far as I know, SMC has always published their spec's, or something as I remember using an SMC on an old 486 a few years ago and had the module to install it under Slackware. 3Com hacked me off when the 905 hit the scenes and no on could write a module for it because there was no tech info on it.
Rod > On Mon, Aug 21, 2000 at 05:15:36PM -0600, John Gonzalez/netMDC admin wrote: > > > > What kind of problems have you run into with the Adaptec card? I'm using > > that card and software RAID, and i've run into hard lock problems. I > > attributed it to the RAID code, but it could be the card. > > In slink, the installation would hang up after failing to properly > puzzle out which driver to load into the kernel. The workaround was to > grab the boot floppy image that was tailored to it. > > In the first frozen potato I was seeing scads of I/O timeouts on > disk access. Again, though, I haven't tried it since the first frozen > version. It may be okay now, or okay using the 'idepci' images. > > > As for the NIC's that you talk about, we run 3c905's but i'm not sure if > > they are the C version or not, we havent had any problems with them, but > > we havent been pushing much traffic at all. More info on that as well > > would be appreciated. > > The latest 3C905's (3C905C-TXM) don't run under the old common Linux > driver -- but 3Com links to some suitable source code from their site. > I've had no trouble out of them. I've heard from quite a few folks > that the 3C905C is unsupported, but in each case have found that they > were trying to use the common Linux driver, not the one provided by > 3Com. Whether or not potato's '905 driver is the old one or something > newer I don't know. > > -- > ---- Art Sackett ---- > Art Sackett Professional Web Design > 1067 Cleveland Street > Meeker, CO 81641-3217 > USA > +1.970.878.5014 > http://www.artsackett.com > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > > > > R. W. Rodolico Daily Data, Inc. POB 140465 Dallas TX 75214-0465 214.827.2170 It appears I could be pursuing an untamed ornithoid to no purpose. --Brent Spiner as Data, Star Trek: The Next Generation
