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From: Per Brax <per@brax.se>
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Subject: Re: 3c509 ethernet card
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 1997 20:06:38 GMT
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Gareth McCaughan wrote:
> 
> The FreeBSD handbook says that the 3c509 ethernet card is supported,
> but mentions that the driver is "buggy". What sort of level of bugginess
> are we talking about here? What doesn't work, under what circumstances?

Due to lack of other free network cards, I tried it on 2.1.5 some time
ago.
At least with my setup, I achieved (?) about 1-2 Kb/sec, much like using
a modem.
This was without having any hardware conflicts at all in the machine.
After switching to a WD8013, the same machine does 500 Kb/sec as a
router.

My two cents, for what it's worth.

/Regards, Per Brax