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Subject: Re: Dlink DSL PCI Card
To: egberts@yahoo.com (S W)
Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2002 19:53:17 +0000 (GMT)
Cc: lkml@secureone.com.au (Andrew Hatfield),
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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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> that have microcodes loaded to them NOR require
> proprietary microcodes accessed to memory by DMA.  In
> other word, don't buy winmodem nor DSL PCI adapters,
> until those chipset manufacturers publish those
> datasheets.

The same reasoning goes for another reason. Some of the newest DSL PCI cards are
in many respects winmodems at multimegabit speed levels, burning huge chunks
of CPU on a pentium III processor even.

Alan
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