Date: Thu, 20 Nov 1997 20:16:25 -0800 (PST) From: Shawn Ramsey <shawn@luke.cpl.net> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Is NE2000 network card OK? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95.971120201410.2766A-100000@luke.cpl.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971120104448.4782M-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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> > NE2000 cards are supported fine, just don't be surprised when it dies a > > few months down the road. Which they DO, its happened many times to me. > > you've just had bad luck with them. I have one in eot.cs.uoregon.edu, > doing mail relaying and web mirroring for FreeBSD, and haven't had a > problem since I bouth that card three years ago. > > It's also old enough to not be Plug&Pray. Today's Plug&Prayc ards ..., > well, suck. The NE2000 plug n' pray are terrible. Last one I tried didnt want to work, although I didnt put much effort into it. It was much easier to swap it with a plug n' pray PCI NE2000. :) (which is auto-detected by FreeBSD) Have had some good luck with 3Com 3c509's and DEC's 2104x cards.
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