From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed May 10 14:37:13 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id OAA05587 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 10 May 1995 14:37:13 -0700 Received: from gndrsh.aac.dev.com (gndrsh.aac.dev.com [198.145.92.241]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id OAA05574 for ; Wed, 10 May 1995 14:37:10 -0700 Received: (from rgrimes@localhost) by gndrsh.aac.dev.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id OAA08448; Wed, 10 May 1995 14:36:32 -0700 From: "Rodney W. Grimes" Message-Id: <199505102136.OAA08448@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> Subject: Re: Needs PCI network recommendation To: iznogood@iesd.auc.dk (Lars Albertsen) Date: Wed, 10 May 1995 14:36:32 -0700 (PDT) Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199505102044.WAA27006@micro.iesd.auc.dk> from "Lars Albertsen" at May 10, 95 10:44:16 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1329 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > > Hi, > > I don't know if this is the right place to ask, but I have been asked > to put together a PC. I still need to select a network card. I would > prefer to buy a PCI-card, can anybody recommend one? Being in the business of building systems lends me a special interest to these types of questions. I recommend the Compex PCI ENET/32 card. This is a PCI bus master so it saves your CPU the work load of bcopying bytes to and from memory. I have yet to see a PCI motherboard that has a problem running this card (I can not say this about other PCI Ethernet cards I have tried). It has all 3 media connectors, so you can use it at any site without doing things like AUI to TP adapters. The other card I do is the SMC 9332 EtherPower 10/100MB card, this card does both 10BaseT at 10MB/sec and 100BaseTX on Cat 5 cable or STP cable with DB-9 connector. XX. TMG CPXPCI/32C Compex ENET32-PCI PCI 32bit ethernet combo $ 118.00 XX. TMG SMC9332 SMC 10/100MB DEC 21140 ethernet combo $ 212.00 Both cards are in stock here at qty 1, 100's are just a phone call and a day away :-) They both use the same if_de.c driver under FreeBSD. -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Accurate Automation Company Custom computers for FreeBSD