Re: linksys etherfast 100TX NIC

From: Dan Hollis (goemon@anime.net)
Date: Thu Aug 31 2000 - 15:17:15 EST


On Thu, 31 Aug 2000, Donald Becker wrote:
> On Wed, 30 Aug 2000, Dan Hollis wrote:
> > Very poor. 100TX uses the cheap taiwanese PNIC tulip clone.
> Nope, the v4.0/v4.1 boards use the ADMtek Comet or Centaur/P.

They changed AGAIN? Sheesh.

> > Youll be lucky
> > to get 2.5mbyte/sec out of them on 100mbps ether.
> While the original PNIC chip are sensitive to out-of-spec PCI bus timing,
> the PNIC, PNIC-1+ (82c169) and PNIC-2 are easily capable of full-data-rate
> performance.

Ok how about the ADM? Are there still issues with this chipset?

-Dan

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