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Date:      Thu, 20 Nov 1997 10:46:38 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Shawn Ramsey <shawn@luke.cpl.net>
Cc:        Dave Bodenstab <imdave@mcs.net>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Is NE2000 network card OK?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.971120104448.4782M-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95.971119185201.3283B-100000@luke.cpl.net>

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On Wed, 19 Nov 1997, Shawn Ramsey wrote:

> 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.

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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