[H-GEN] Time loss on copy

Rob Kearey robk at powerup.com.au
Wed Jun 14 02:18:15 EDT 2000


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"Grant, Luke" wrote:

> lol......did i just see "decent" and "3com" in the same sentance...

For differing values of "decent" - I was just pulling names out of a
hat. I'd just get one of the Tulip based NetGears if it was up to me

> the 3com905b and 3com905c cards are undoubtedly the crappest cards ever
> released.
> They have craploads of hardware bugs and when i got our electronic engineers
> to look at them they just laughed when they saw the setup.

I've had lots of kernel oopses with my 3c90x, as well. Silly thing.

Still, the point remains - don't use an ISA network card, especially a
workalike clone, in any important machine.

> Luke

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