Date: Thu, 20 Nov 1997 10:41:54 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: "Michael W. Lucas" <mwlucas@bigbrother.rust.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: good PCI NICs? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971120103751.4782L-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <199711201252.HAA12628@bigbrother.rust.net>
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On Thu, 20 Nov 1997, Michael W. Lucas wrote: > After extensive testing, we had settled on the Linksys PCI NIC card as an > office standard. NE2000 PCI cards. Yuck. :-( Or are these de2404x based? > Rather than going through another round of tests, does anyone have any > opinions/suggestions for PCI NICs for FreeBSD? Intel EtherExpress Pro/100B. For newer versions of FreeBSD the Dayna or Kingston PCI cards should work fine. I need to try my Kingston and makes sure it works with the newer de code in 2.2.5. > We need a card that can be configured using a single Win95 boot floppy, > and that can easily be assigned a wide variety of IRQs and memory > addresses. (We frequently have several NICs in one box.) Performance is > also important. PCI configures itself, so you don't need a setup program. Whether they clash with one another s a function of your BIOS's PCI setup. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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