Re: about setting IRQ:s for nics

From: Santtu Lintervo (santtu.lintervo_at_POISTA.kolumbus.fi)
Date: 07/18/04 

Date: 18 Jul 2004 17:57:20 +0300

bv@wjv.com (Bill Vermillion) writes:
> Find someone who has an MS machine. Have them make a bootable
> DOS disk. The copy the 3com program to that.

i allready got it done. i downloaded freedos and ran
it on bochs.

> Your best bet will be to get an PCI ethernet card. When you run
> the ISA bus card the data flow to/from those cards slows down
> to the ISA bus speed. ISTR that is about 8MHz maximum. A PCI bus
> runs at 4 times that rate and if you can perform wide transfers
> so much the bertter.

how fast is that? the card's maximum speed is 10 Mbit/sec,
but i'm going to use this card for my adsl connection, which
is only 250 kbps.

--santtu

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