Re: Intel EtherExpress pro/10+ cards

[Chris Cappuccio <chris@dqc.org>]

The pro10/isa cards use the 'ex' driver,
while the pci cards use 'fxp'

I don't know if the chips are significantly different or not, but the newer
100Mb fxp cards are excellent, and you can probably expect good performance
from any pci 'fxp' card.  ex is terribly slow, not much more you can say
about it.

On Wed, 1 Dec 1999, CyberPsychotic wrote:

 | ~ :> year or so, and haven't noticed anything that would prove it's
 | ~ :> unreliability. It isn't being used under heavy load though.
 | ~ :
 | ~ :Thats exactly the problem.  We used to have them in a few machine here,
 | ~ :and they wored fine - until you placed any sort of network load on
 | ~ :them.  Basically, save your sanity and buy a new ne2k isa clone for $10.
 | ~ :
 | 
 | 
 | hmm.. does this apply to all Intel EtherExpress pro/10* cards, or some
 | specific brand (pci/isa,..)? 
 | 
 | 

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