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AFAIU 3com turned it around later, with their 100base-t card (3c95x??) generally being well regarded. Back as a student when I moved into the dorms which had 1
by jabl 6y ago
AFAIU 3com turned it around later, with their 100base-t card (3c95x??) generally being well regarded.
Back as a student when I moved into the dorms which had 100base-T, I did some googling (or maybe it was altavista'ing in those days, I can't remember) and it seemed the best regarded 100base-t cards for Linux were the Intel one and the 3com one. The 3com one was slightly cheaper at the local computer shop, so I got one of those.
(Somewhat later on there was a flood of very cheap DEC Tulip clones, and I got one of those too. Was happy with that one as well.)
- EvanAnderson 6y agoThe heady days of the late 90's, when the 3C595 (code name "vortex"), 3C905 (with "Parallel Tasking"!), and the Intel 82557/82558-based NICs (like the PRO/100B with its distinctive odd circuit board shape[1]) reigned supreme! Those were fun times. I put out a number of Red Hat 6.2-based servers w/ the Intel NICs, got hit with the dreaded eepro100 "receiver lock-up" bug, and had to end up putting in 3C905 NICs in their place to get stable network connectivity. Good times. >smile< [1] https://universaldatasystems.org/shop/product/intel-pro-100b-10-100-pci-fast-ethernet/ https://universaldatasystems.org/shop/product/intel-pro-100b...
- nikau 6y agoAt my first job there was a box of about 50 expensive 3com network cards which seemed odd, I asked what the deal was and they were faulty and the firm had been sent a bunch of replacements. I did some testing on them and it turned out they sent an interrupt signal on every IRQ regardless of what IRQ you configured in the setup utility which caused windows to lock up. I took them home and drilled through the traces to the unwanted IRQs on the ISA slot and gifted them out at lan parties.