Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2001 16:16:19 +0100 (BST) From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Gavin=20Kenny?= <gavinkenny@yahoo.co.uk> To: Justin C Sherrill <justin@shiningsilence.com>, questions@freebsd.org Cc: Gavin Kenny <gavinkenny@yahoo.co.uk> Subject: Re: Recommend a NIC Message-ID: <20010717151619.49830.qmail@web20010.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <01071710452601.00402@roc-24-169-96-227.rochester.rr.com>
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The trouble with the 3Com 509 is that it uses the ep driver, which according to the archives of this list, is flakey and I keep getting "No Buffer space Available" messages which I have been told is down to the ep driver. If this isn't the case and someone knows how to fix it without using another type of NIC (and therefore driver) please let me know. Cheers Gavin --- Justin C Sherrill <justin@shiningsilence.com> wrote: > On Tuesday 17 July 2001 07:18, you wrote: > > > My boss has said I can buy some new NIC's. So what > > does everyone suggest? > > Other than the occasional glitch, there's very > little difference between > Ethernet cards by manufacturer. Find a cheap one > (or 10, in your case), make > sure it's supported, and you will probably be OK. > > The difference between, say, a 3Com card and a > generic card with a RealTek > chipset is only the price. My workplace (cable ISP) > installs/supplies > several hundred Ethernet cards each week to new > customers, and the average > results have borne this out. > > Justin ____________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.co.uk address at http://mail.yahoo.co.uk or your free @yahoo.ie address at http://mail.yahoo.ie To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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