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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!news.mathworks.com!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!dish.news.pipex.net!pipex!pipex-sa.net!iafrica.com!uct.uni.net.za!ru.uni.net.za!psgrain!quack!quack.kfu.com!nsayer From: nsayer@quack.kfu.com (Nick Sayer) Subject: Re: FreeBSD (current) good for Laptops? Message-ID: <nGmSXlg@quack.kfu.com> Sender: news@quack.kfu.com (0000-News(0000)) Organization: The Duck Pond public unix, +1 408 249 9630, log in as guest. References: <87pw1jarx5.fsf@plm.xs4all.nl> <56vb5k$k8j@news1.iamerica.net> <32993EA8.446B9B3D@FreeBSD.org> <m2zq05dkvy.fsf@golfgod.raleigh.ibm.com> Date: Mon, 2 Dec 1996 15:47:41 UTC Lines: 18 tjevans@raleigh.ibm.com (Thomas Evans) writes: >After a private discussion, Jordan confirm my beliefs that the IBM CC >Enet driver (if_ze) needs some work and hasn't been optimized. I've never >had a problem on other hardware. You really only ought to use if_ze for installation. Go get the PAO package and let the card manager assign the ordinary ed driver to your card. Works excellently for me. I haven't benchmarked it, but I would venture to guess that it doesn't do any worse than the SMC Elite Ultra I have in another machine here (to be fair, I actually have the National Semi NE4100, but it's the same thing as the IBM card). -- Nick Sayer <nsayer@quack.kfu.com> | N6QQQ @ N0ARY.#NORCAL.CA.USA.NOAM | WASPs are people too. +1 408 249 9630, log in as 'guest' | URL: http://www.kfu.com/~nsayer/ |