Subject: Re: USB Ethernet adapters (for Netpliance Iopener)
To: None <marcotte@panix.com>
From: Lennart Augustsson <lennart@augustsson.net>
List: current-users
Date: 03/14/2000 08:54:24
marcotte@panix.com wrote:

> My company just bought 5 Netpliance Iopeners for use at shows. If they
> come in less than a week and a half, we'll be able to show them running
> NetBSD (current) at Lunacon this year (www.lunacon.org).
>
> Anyway,
>
> We want to run X11 on these using USB Ethernet adapters. Does anyone
> have any opinions on which USB Ethernet adapter will give the best
> performance under NetBSD-current? I know they're generally not as good
> as PCI Ethernet cards, so I want to make I get the best one.

The aue driver with a 100 Mb card seems to do best.  You can *increase*
throughput by using USB speakers at the same time. :)


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        -- Lennart