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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!news.ultranet.com!news.sprintlink.net!news.cc.sunysb.edu!vernick From: vernick@cs.sunysb.edu (Michael Vernick) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: SMC EtherPower 10/100 Date: 24 Aug 1995 03:09:33 GMT Organization: State University of New York at Stony Brook Lines: 19 Message-ID: <41gqhd$8gj@abel.cc.sunysb.edu> References: <Pine.ULT.3.91.950822214622.11137A-100000@rac8.wam.umd.edu> <41edtg$g3p@shell2.best.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: sbgrad9.cs.sunysb.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Russell Carter (rcarter@best.com) wrote: : In article <Pine.ULT.3.91.950822214622.11137A-100000@rac8.wam.umd.edu>, : Gary Jackson <garyj@wam.umd.edu> wrote: : > : >I seem to recall that SMC is now using the DEC 21041 chip in their : ^^^^^ : You are sure that it is not the 21140? The 6 cards I have work fine. : Though one is half as fast. Very interesting. I had problems with my SMC card running at 100Mbs. I was only getting about .4Mbs (yes, .4) using FTP between 2 machines. I found out there is a timing problem with the DEC chip. I was told to set the jumper on my Intel P75 motherboard to run at 90mhz. It then worked great, 35Mbs for FTP, (about the speed of the disk writes. -- Michael Vernick vernick@sbcs.sunysb.edu Dept. Of Computer Science @ SUNY SB (516)-632-8434 Stony Brook, NY 11794