a question

[Torbjorn Lindgren]

On Wed, 11 Nov 1998, Ismael Johannes wrote:
> Sergei Haller wrote:
> > If you want to buy a 3com PCI Fast (100Mbps) Ethernet Card, there is
> > only one choice at the moment: 3c905B (Cyclone)
> 
> Not all true, the 3C905B comes in two flavors that is with or without
> WakeOnLan connector&support.

Which both are 3c905B's...

If you are going to pick that kind of nits, you'd better be carefull.
According to 3Com's web-pages there are THREE 100Mbit versions of the
3c905B available, 3c905B-TX, 3c905B-TX-NM (no remote wakeup) and
3c905B-FX(SC) (fiber).

Also listed are the 3c905-T4 (for 100base-T4, very rare) and 3c597-TX
(EISA). Looks like they haven't bothered to upgrade the less used cards to
the new chipset, otherwise it would have been even more versions.

So there are actually 3c905's still available from 3Com, just not versions
usable for normal net's... For most PRACTICAL purposes the original
comment was right thought.