I am a little bit confused. I never heard of these cardbus thing. Do these cards plug into the same slots? hang loose marcus On Fri, Sep 15, 2000 at 07:39:38AM -0700, Jared Valentine wrote: > This is not a problem with DLINK cards. This is true of ANY manufacturer's 16-bit PCMCIA card (Xircom, 3Com, Intel, etc.) Since there is no such thing as a "15mbps hub", or a "20mbps hub", it wouldn't make sense to call it a 20mbps PC Card. These kind of cards do connect to 100mbps networks, although they don't fully realize the entire bandwidth. > > If you want the full throughput, you need a Cardbus PC Card instead. > > Jared Valentine > hidden@xmission.com > > At 08:40 AM 9/15/2000 -0300, Carlos Menezes wrote: > >People, > >I can not believe it. I'm not doubting about information sent by Jared, but how is possible > >this kind of misinformation by DLINK???????? > >If I buy 1 10/100 PCMCIA card, it's clear that I intend to use it at 100 Mbps.........:-(( > >Am I wrong?? > >Please, send me suggestions! > > > >Carlos Menezes. > > > >Jared Valentine wrote: > > > >> PCMCIA = 16bit = Maximum of 15-20mbps throughput (this is a limitation of the 16-bit bus...) > >> Cardbus = 32bit = full 100mbps throughput (as long as the rest of the laptop can handle it) > >> > >> PC Card is used interchangably between the two. The DFE-650TX is only a 16-bit PCMCIA card, and therefore won't get anything over 20mbps. Now why is the throughput at 8mbps? Your guess is as good as mine... > >> > >> Jared Valentine > >> hidden@xmission.com > >> > >> At 07:18 PM 9/14/2000 +0200, Bart-Jan Vrielink wrote: > >> >On Thu, 14 Sep 2000, Carlos Menezes wrote: > >> > > >> >> I have a DLINK 10/100 PCMCIA card (DFE-650TX) in my laptop (I installed > >> >> the last version of PCMCIA package: 3.1.20) and a Realtek 8139 PCI > >> >> 10/100 card in my desktop. The adapters are linked by a crossover cable > >> >> with RJ-45 plugs. > >> >> DFE-650TX is setted up to autonegociation (it is the only one option; > >> >> when I try ifport eth0 100baseT, a error message is displayed) and I can > >> >> set up the link mode at Realtek 8139 with mii-diag program. > >> >> I got only 8 Mbits/s at a ftp test by copying a 14Mbytes archive. > >> >> Does anyone have suggestions??? > >> > > >> >Is it a PCMCIA card or a PCcard ?? > >> >PCcards are much newer and are much faster (compare with ISA vs. PCI). > >> >I have a Intel EtherExpress Pro/100 pcmcia card and I get the same results > >> >as you have. At best it is at 100 Mbit/s just a little bit faster than at > >> >10 Mbit/s but at 100Mbit it uses much more CPU time. So whenever I can > >> >choose between 10 MBit and 100 MBit, I have it set on 10 MBit. > >> > > >> >-- > >> >Tot ziens, > >> > > >> >Bart-Jan > >> > > >> > > >> >-- > >> >To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-laptop-request@lists.debian.org > >> >with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org > >> > >> -- > >> To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-laptop-request@lists.debian.org > >> with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-laptop-request@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org > -- public key: http://leute.server.de/hagan/gpg.txt fingerprint: 07D9 F89B 7762 1515 F85E 49BE 86FB 9197 01B5 401A
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