In article <199506121910.PAA25686@obelix.cs.UMD.EDU> jds@cs.UMD.EDU (James da Silva) writes:
> > My DC21x40 driver has been merged into NetBSD-current.  It supports the
> > DC21040 and DC21140 based PCI cards (SMC 8432 and DEC DE435 for
> > instance).
>
>Does anyone have any firm idea as to the performance of the SMC PCI card
>with this driver on, say, a P90 or better?  Can I expect close to full
>ethernet potential?
>
>Also, what kind of performance are people getting from their 3c509 cards
>(ep driver)?  I can't get more than about 90 kps from mine on output (input
>is ok, I can get up to 1000K).  Something's surely broken, but the driver
>looks like it is doing all the right things as far as I can tell.  [This is
>on a P5-90 running NetBSD 1.0, there are no collisions or transmit errors
>reported... ???]
>
>I'm about to buy a bunch of new machines and I don't want to get stuck with
>a doggy ethernet card.
>
>Thanks for any advice,
>Jaime

No promises, but I've gotten a couple of 3c590's so when I get some time,
a driver might appear.

christos