On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 01:25:21PM -0400, Adam Goode wrote: > Yes, built-in ethernet is crappy. On my 7500, with MACE, it works > great for about 5-10 minutes, then becomes sporadic and eventually > just stops working. A reboot fixes things perfectly. > > BUT, this is only in Linux. Under Mac OS 9, the ethernet works > quite well and never has any problems (other than whatever problems > there are in Mac OS). > > So, the built-in ethernet can work, it is just a matter of crafting > a robust driver to cope with its bugs and terrible nature. Mac OS 9 > has a robust driver, Linux does not. > > It seems that NetBSD has a robust driver. Anyone up for a port of mace > from NetBSD -> Linux? Think of the rewards! Now that old Mac can have > reliable 10baseT Ethernet under Linux without adding any cards! > > It's just a matter of motivation, which is severely undermined by > the existence of vastly superior, cheap PCI ethernet cards that work > perfectly. > > But it might be fun... > > Have you ever gotten full 10baseT speed out of mace cards under MacOS or NetBSD? I certainly didn't under MacOS, but I haven't tried NetBSD. I remember getting 50KB/sec transfer rates, while our x86 boxes were going at full 10/100 speed to the same server...
Mike
