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cyan
Card seems to have some kind of NE2000 support, and appears in the networking panel as "NE2000 compatible PCMCIA".
Everything seems to work fine, but -- PLEASE NOTE THAT I HAVE NOT TESTED 100Mbps TRANSFER USING THIS CARD AT THIS TIME! Although I am connected to a 10/100 switching hub, and the 100Mbps LED illuminates, I have not tried shifting data around at 100 yet (since all the other machines are at 10 at the moment), so I can't say for sure. Since the 100Mbps LED is on, I assume there is at least some support for 100.
Initially I had no luck getting this card working, but I didn't have any luck getting any PCMCIA cards working either (on my Sony Vaio PCG-SR1K, which is a good BeBox, except for a slow graphics card). However, upon running the brilliant PC Card Wizard (available from bebits) everything worked flawlessly -- it found the card and set everything up in a few seconds, with almost no user input, and no fiddling.
The issues seem to stem from BeOS's support for PCMCIA cards, which is not totally automatic natively.
Performance of this card is OK, and it also works in DOS (MS-client) and Linux. Tried to get it working with win2k briefly, gave up and then deleted win2k altogether (no need for that big waste of space). I don't think (but I'm not sure on this one) that this card is a 32 bit card, which may explain why perforamnce doesn't seem to be as good as the newer 32 bit cards, but it is still very useful for hooking the machine onto the network, and file transfers are pretty snappy still.
I'm giving it an eight since support wasn't automatic, and performance isn't earth shattering. However, it's a high eight -- almost a nine. I'm also not completely sure how well 100 is really supported, hence the lower rating. You could get better cards, but this one does the job without any issues whatsoever (just make sure you have the PC Card Wizard!). The card is as good in BeOS as any other operating system I have used it with. rating: 8 |
