Subject: Re: Setting up a new server, help with hardware choices
To: Jonathan Stone <jonathan@DSG.Stanford.EDU>
From: Frank van der Linden <frank@wins.uva.nl>
List: port-i386
Date: 06/09/1998 01:08:35
On Mon, Jun 08, 1998 at 03:52:58PM -0700, Jonathan Stone wrote:
> 
> >..that's a 10Mbit BNC/TP/AUI card, isn't it? I don't think it does
> >100. You definitely don't want that one.. You need a 905-TX if
> >you want it to be supported in 1.3.2.
> 
> AFAIK, the 3c900 still works fine on 1.3.2, but the card only supports
> 10Mbit media.  It's the DMA-only 3c90xB (Boomerang) which we don't
> support yet, and I don't know if a 10Mbit combo version exists.
> 
> Frank, what doesn't work with the 3c900 combo?

I guess my message was open to wrong interpretation.. my fault. I meant
to say that 1) the 3c900 is a 10Mbit-only card, and 2) if you want
a supported, recent 100Mbit 3Com card, go for the 3C905-TX, because
we do not support the 3c90xB yet.

I didn't mean to say that the 3c900 combo didn't work, I see no reason
why it should not.

Also, the good news is that I have 2 3c905B cards, and the docs from 3com,
so I'll start working on 905B support soon.

- Frank