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From: nelson@crynwr.crynwr.com (Russell Nelson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.networking,comp.os.386bsd.development
Subject: Re: Excelan 82586-based ethernet card
Date: 29 Apr 1994 17:39:38 GMT
Organization: Crynwr Software
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Message-ID: <NELSON.94Apr29133938@crynwr.crynwr.com>
References: <1994Apr23.132033.3744@fasterix.frmug.fr.net> <1994Apr24.013323.3850@bnr.ca>
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In-reply-to: vixie@vix.com's message of 27 Apr 94 14:20:54
In article <VIXIE.94Apr27142054@office.home.vix.com> vixie@vix.com (Paul A Vixie) writes:
A better bus-mastering DMA card these days is the TNIC-1500, which has a
Lance-like "PCISA" chip on it. Card and driver for any PC BSD-alike system
can be had from steve@sccsi.com. The card costs ~$150 at last report.
Couple of things, Paul (well, okay, *five* things):
o The card is better known as the NE2100.
o The PC-Net/ISA is more than LANCE-like, it's completely upward-compatible.
o Steve @ sccsi sells them himself.
o Compatible cards are sold by Boca, Kingston, Allied-Telesis, HP,
Transition Engineering, Eagle Technologies (now owned by
Lantastic) and a couple of others.
o The card lists for $89 from Allied-Telesis (AT1500), which is a
competitive price.
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