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From: dillon@flea.best.net (Matt Dillon)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: 100Base-T PCMCIA ?
Date: 15 Jan 1997 23:45:52 -0800
Organization: BEST Internet Communications, Inc.
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:In article <32DAA92B.3F54@browncow.com>, Bill Kish <kish@browncow.com> wrote:
:>Does anyone have any information concerning 100Base-T PCMCIA cards
:>that might be suppported? If not how about cards that have specs freely
:>available but no driver yet?
:>
:> TIA,
:>
:> -BK
I have always thought that PCMCIA used ISA-like bus timing and
frequencies, which would make PCMCIA's maximum bandwidth somewhere
around 5 MBytes/sec. This would appear to preclude being able
to get good performance out of a 100Base-T PCMCIA ethernet card.
(verses a PCI 100BaseT card, where PCI has 130MBytes/sec of
available bandwiddh).
-Matt