From: ching@angelo.amd.com (Mike Ching) Subject: Re: Beta TCP/IP Date: 27 Aug 1992 22:01:28 GMT
In article <714839549snx@crynwr.com> nelson@crynwr.com (Russell Nelson) writes:
>In article <1992Aug25.233806.11161@morrow.stanford.edu> bir7@leland.Stanford.EDU writes:
>
> Currently only the Western Digital Ethercard Plus and compatibles
> are supported (wd80[01]3 boards). If you have a different ethernet
> board you will either have to write your own driver or wait until
> someone else does (There is someone who claims to be working on
> drivers for many different ethernet boards.)
>
>Yes. I'm going to get a NE2000 driver going first, because they're
>so ubiquitious and cheap. Any votes for what comes after that?
>3Com's brand new 3c509 is a pretty high-tech card...
>
>-russ <nelson@crynwr.com> I'm proud to be a humble Quaker!
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My biased vote would be for a PCnet-ISA driver (it's the NE2100 card
in a chip). It's a high performance bus master ethernet chip which
we are agressively designing into PC motherboards. Depends on whether
you're interested in existing systems or future systems.
Mike Ching