On Feb 24, 2005, at 3:52 PM, Matthias Scheler wrote:

> In article <20050224171435.GB6483@panix.com>,
> 	Jonathan Kay <jpk@panix.com> writes:
>> the wm card is onboard, so can't really yank it, but if I were 
>> creative
>> with a soldering iron.. :-)
>
> That's broken hardware design. 33MHz 32Bit PCI is known to be too slow
> for GbE. It's understandable to use it when the chipset on the board
> doesn't offer anything better but that's not the case here.

If it's the *only* thing on the bus, 32/33 is *just barely* fast enough 
for Gig-E.

-- thorpej