Re: fastethernet on 8500


Subject: Re: fastethernet on 8500
From: Myles Vredenburg (myles.vredenburg@compath.com)
Date: Sat Nov 13 1999 - 12:58:12 MST


-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Fassler <mfassler@terraplex.com>
To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
<yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com>
Date: Wednesday, November 10, 1999 2:25 PM
Subject: Re: fastethernet on 8500

>Walls, Bryan wrote...
>>
>> I'd like to install a PCI Fast Ethernet (100BT) card in my 8500 to
>> use with the Darwin Streaming Server (QuickTime) on Champion 1.1.
>> I've gotten somewhat conflicting reports. Does anyone have a card
>> that works for them? Recommendations as to what is good/bad?
>> Bryan Walls My words are not NASA policy.
>> Bryan.Walls@msfc.nasa.gov (256)544-3311voice,544-5841fax
>>
>
>The 3com 3C509B will work. Also, most cards that use the tulip driver
>or the de4x5 driver will work (if they use the standard linux tulip
>driver, they should work. If they come with their own tulip driver, they
>will probably not work under PPC).
>
>The tulip cards work great and tend to be very cost-effective (a lot of
>the off brands and the cheaper brands use the DEC tulip chip), but it's
>difficult to know beforehand exactly what chip/driver it uses. The
>3C509B's work great, but you pay extra for the name.
>
>There are probably others that I don't know about...
>
>--
>Mark Fassler
>Terra Soft Solutions, Inc.
> Yellow Dog Linux
> "The Ultimate Companion for a Dedicated Server"
> http://www.yellowdoglinux.com/
>
>

Note that the 3C509B is an ISA 10Mb/s card. You want the 3C905 which is
PCI, 100Mb/s.

Myles



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