Re: EtherExpress problems

Simon Tatham (sgt20@cam.ac.uk)
Sat, 9 Mar 1996 10:20:53 GMT

>to me this almost smells like an interrupt or base mem conflict. does the
>486 have a sound card sitting on the same interrupt? intel's etherexpress
>series cards are typically rock solid, i'd need to know more about what
>other hardware is in that 486 before hazarding any other guesses.
> --jm bassett

I'm afraid I'm going to be forced to disagree. Trinity College uses
PCs with EtherExpresses in, and without exception they're buggy and
unreliable. This is nothing to do with the standard Linux driver
being broken (although IMHO it is), because Intel's *DOS* drivers
don't work very well either. The damn cards are *not* rock solid.

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