From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 11 19:40:02 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA16458 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 11 Nov 1998 19:40:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from sdcc10.ucsd.edu (sdcc10.ucsd.edu [132.239.50.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA16383 for ; Wed, 11 Nov 1998 19:39:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from crouilla@ucsd.edu) Received: from localhost (crouilla@localhost) by sdcc10.ucsd.edu (8.8.3/8.8.3) with SMTP id TAA03784; Wed, 11 Nov 1998 19:39:36 -0800 (PST) X-Authentication-Warning: sdcc10.ucsd.edu: crouilla owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1998 19:39:35 -0800 (PST) From: Chuck Rouillard Reply-To: chuck@ucsd.edu To: Jeff Hamilton cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: your mail In-Reply-To: <199811120311.WAA09692@gandolf.ml.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I am currently running FreeBSD on a 486 DX2-50, and would like to > upgrade the system to something much faster. I have been looking at the > Cyrix MII-300, and it seems like a better buy for the money than a > Pentium or Pentium II. > > Does anyone know of any problems or incompatibilities with this > processor and FreeBSD 2.2.7-STABLE or FreeBSD 3.0-RELEASE? You *may* have better luck with AMD(over Cyrix) since you're considering alternatives to Intel. Moreover, with Cyrix, you may need to be more selective over which motherboard you choose. > Also, I have noticed that the NE2000 ethernet cards are only listed in > the ISA section of LINT. Are PCI NE2000 ethernet cards supported under > FreeBSD? They are well supported. I use UNICOM's variant @ $19U.S. but there are many others. > > Thanks! > > Jeff Hamilton > gandolf@gandolf.ml.org > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message