[ILUG] Genius GE2000III Ethernet Drivers

Johno Sullivan johno at tornado.ie
Fri Jan 14 19:11:17 GMT 2000


I rarely use windoze so I've never seen ge3setup. Maybe I've been unfair
but these cards don't give good performance under linux. ne2000's aren't
great in general..

johno

On Fri, 14 Jan 2000, Martin Feeney wrote:

>I have to say the two I have in winboxen get sustained 800kB/s+ to the 
>intel ether express pro on my debian box via ftp (not simultaneously).  
>Like 3c509s they fail miserably in PnP mode, but in jumperless mode 
>(configured via ge3setup) they work very nicely.
>
>One problem they've been known to exhibit is that they seem to go into 
>full duplex mode for no good reason when installed so they clash like mad. 
>If you set them back to half duplex they behave themselves very nicely.  
>
>I think I paid £30 each for them about 2 years ago.
>
>YMMV.
huh????.







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