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From: ritz@ritz.mordor.com (Chris Mauritz)
Subject: Re: Support for 3Com 3C590 ethernet cards
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Date: Mon, 11 Mar 1996 21:45:55 GMT

Greg Laslett (abseil@thehub.com.au) wrote:
: 
: I would dearly like to use the new PCI based 3C590 ethernet card with
: FreeBSD 2.1.  Has anybody done this yet ?  Will a driver be
: forthcoming in the near future ??

According to the various tests I've seen, the SMC 100mbit card is
significantly faster, loads the cpu a LOT less, and is cheaper.

Regards,

Chris
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