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From: mcs@vpm.com (Mark Stout)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: 3c590 PCI 10mbps ethernet card vx driver? (fwd)
Date: 22 Mar 1996 06:41:16 GMT
Organization: ProMedia Services Corp.
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References: <Pine.LNX.3.91.960313192958.32655A-100000@gallup.cia-g.com> <4ia89l$191@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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J Wunsch (j@uriah.heep.sax.de) wrote:
: Stephen Fisher <lithium@cia-g.com> writes:
: > Frederick Gray has written a driver for the 3com 590 PCI ethernet card:
: It is already incorporated in -current. Alas, the driver itself
: claims that it does use PIO to access the card. For a continuous 1
: MB/s input packet stream, the CPU utilization of an i586/90 is > 70 %.
: So this doesn't seem to be a good solution for heavy-loaded servers.
I just installed a SMC8432T PCI and so far it's been perfomring just fine.
Is this actually supported? The rev is 2.1R.
Ciao,
Mark
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