On Jan 16,  9:43am, Greg A. Woods wrote:
} [ On Saturday, September 30, 2000 at 20:26:00 (-0400), Brian Gregor wrote: ]
} >
} > I used to get 700 kB/sec or so via FTP with the 8013's over 10base2
} > between a K6-200 & a 486DX2-66.
} 
} hmm... I'm guessing not with 8013WC's though, either that or not with
} NetBSD....  The 8416BT I have might go faster...  There was some other
} problem with the 8013WC's that I can't exactly remember too, something
} significant enough to make me switch back to the ne2000's -- perhaps it
} couldn't NAT as fast with them....
} 
} I neglected to mention the exact specs before.  My machine is also a
} 486DX2/66MHz (with 8MB RAM)....  It has a PCI bus too, but nothing's
} using it and the chassis I have it in won't let me plug any PCI cards in
} anyway, at least now without cutting metal.  The kernel does say
} "Warning: broken PCI-Host bridge detected; disabling memory-mapped
} access" though....

     This is the problem.  The 8013's use memory-mapped access.  On a
working machine this should be faster then polled-i/o.  I know that
I've never had any problems with these cards and prefer them to ne2000
clones.

}-- End of excerpt from Greg A. Woods