Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2002 13:03:19 -0700 From: Nathan Kinkade <nkinkade@dsl-only.net> To: Lord Raiden <raiden23@netzero.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Questions about Nics and Freebsd Message-ID: <20020814130319.0bd09dfe.nkinkade@dsl-only.net> In-Reply-To: <4.2.0.58.20020814154637.00961960@pop.netzero.net> References: <4.2.0.58.20020814154637.00961960@pop.netzero.net>
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On Wed, 14 Aug 2002 15:49:06 -0400 Lord Raiden <raiden23@netzero.net> wrote: > HI again all. Silly question. I've used almost exclusively > 3com nics in > my equipment here and had almost zero troubles with them over the long > > term. Problem is they're between 2 and 3 times as expensive as many > other nics out there. > > My questions are simple. > 1. Which nics work with freebsd and which don't? > 2. Of the nics that work with freebsd, how would you rate each > one of > them on a scale of 1-10, 10 being best. I don't know which are considered better than others, but for a list of which type of cards FreeBSD 4.6 supports have a look at: http://www.freebsd.org/releases/4.6R/hardware-i386.html#ETHERNET Seems to me that if you've had good luck with 3c in the past that you might as well stick with them. Nathan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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