Date: Sat, 8 Jun 1996 18:18:22 -0700 (PDT) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@GndRsh.aac.dev.com> To: mark@linus.demon.co.uk (Mark Valentine) Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org, kmc@gnd.com Subject: Re: FreeBSD hardware in the UK Message-ID: <199606090118.SAA13877@GndRsh.aac.dev.com> In-Reply-To: <199606081820.TAA18675@linus.demon.co.uk> from Mark Valentine at "Jun 8, 96 07:20:27 pm"
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> Someone asked a little while ago about where to get hardware in the UK > which will run FreeBSD well. I recently bought a couple of systems from > GND, ASUStek's UK distributor, and have been quite impressed with the > quality of the systems and their friendly service. Their prices are > also very competitive (prices are on-line at http://www.gnd.com/). ... Thanks for the tip, I've saved that off and know have a place to send the folks who come looking to me for parts/systems from the UK. > I put my own SMC EtherPower cards in these, but GND will sell you a (cheaper) > ASUS card also based on the same DEC chipset supported by the `de' driver (I > don't have any information on whether these just work, though). I am really replying to make a correction here, the ASUS PCI-L101-TB ethernet card is based on an AMD Am79C970 chip and absolutely will not run with the ``de'' driver. It may, however, work with the ``lnc'' driver. > Mark Valentine at Home <mailto:mv@pobox.com> <http://www.pobox.com/~mv/>; -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Accurate Automation Company Reliable computers for FreeBSD
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