Mediator vs Prometheus

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NightShade737 wrote:
and are there drivers available for the following:

Voodoo 3 and Voodoo 5

Yes, both.

3com 950C Cards

Neither.

Realtek 8139 NICs

Mediator only.

SiS909 NICs

Neither.

and SB128 cards (Ensonique 1371 chipset)

Mediator only.  

Regarding the 3Com Nic.  Sure, they are cheap, but you can get a RealTech 8139 for $.99 on eBay.  Can't get cheaper than that.

[adolescent]

downix wrote:

    Realtek 8139 NICs

Mediator only.

Don't be too sure there.  The promethius I have happens to have a 8139 on it.

I took all of the driver info from the "official" driver pages.  Beta/test drivers weren't listed for download, so I didn't include them.

[adolescent]

NightShade737 wrote:

Regarding the 3Com Nic. Sure, they are cheap, but you can get a RealTech 8139 for $.99 on eBay. Can't get cheaper than that.

Thats not the point, read my reason.

Ok, I see what you wrote about the checksum offloading. I'm not sure how CPU intensive this is though.  Also, some of the RealTek 8139 line support checksum offloading, but the driver would need to be modified to accomidate this.  Perhaps Elbox would do this if there was enough demand.

Hmmm, I don't think buying a promo would be the best thing to do then as it doesn't have drivers for anything I own, and still doesn't support BM  :-(

I think that is the key.  If the Prometheus doesn't have support for the hardware you want to run, then you have other choices.