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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: 3Com 3C509 Help
Date: 18 Mar 1996 00:00:08 GMT
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jimo@expansion.com (JIm Owen) writes:
> I'm getting very, very poor performance from a 3Com 3C509 card [...]

Wrong IRQ.  The driver does some once-per-second polling then, so it
appears to be somewhat useable but slow.

-- 
cheers, J"org

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