Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!uwvax!oddjob!ncar!ames!amdahl!amdcad!phil
From: phil@amdcad.AMD.COM (Phil Ngai)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
Subject: Re: Ethernet Card
Message-ID: <22140@amdcad.AMD.COM>
Date: 18 Jun 88 02:36:55 GMT
References: <8806171456.aa00215@Louie.UDEL.EDU>
Reply-To: phil@amdcad.UUCP (Phil Ngai)
Organization: Advanced Micro Devices
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In article <8806171456.aa00215@Louie.UDEL.EDU> CNV38@bnr.ca (Mike Hui, M.H.) writes:
>1. What are the good reliable, decent throughput Ethernet card
>   for the PC?
>2. Which company adopts an open-door policy in terms of software
>   and hardware interfaces to the card?  I know that drivers for
>   many Ethernet cards are available.  I would, however, feel much
>   more comfortable to deal with a vendor who doesn't mind or
>   actually prefers to make their card's interface public.

From both the performance side and openess side Western Digital seems
to be the best. There's been a big discussion in this very group
recently and the general conclusion seemed to be WD had the easiest to
configure and fastest interface. 

I just got 900K of drivers, source and binary, and documentation by
visiting my local WD guy. He said they were copyrighted by WD but were
freely distributable. I've gotten a number of requests for the files
and am now trying to figure out how to distribute them. 

Any suggestions?
-- 

I speak for myself, not the company.
Phil Ngai, {ucbvax,decwrl,allegra}!amdcad!phil or phil@amd.com