Subject: Re: Reliable network cards? CF cards?
To: Andy Ruhl <acruhl@gmail.com>
From: Todd Vierling <tv@duh.org>
List: port-hpcmips
Date: 02/25/2005 14:49:53
On Fri, 18 Feb 2005, Andy Ruhl wrote:

> Yeah, that's probably it then. The v3 card is cardbus, so I looked at
> the documentation for this card. It seemed like the v2 and v1 were
> similar, but this is probably not the case.

Most of the popular networking hardware companies have a habit of changing
chipset entirely without changing model number -- they seem to think that a
"version" number is adequate to tell the difference, and this version number
is usually not visible on the outside of the package.

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-- Todd Vierling <tv@duh.org> <tv@pobox.com>