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From: nsayer@quack.kfu.com (Nick Sayer)
Subject: Re: FreeBSD (current) good for Laptops?
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Date: Mon, 2 Dec 1996 15:47:41 UTC
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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).

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