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Date:      Sun, 2 Sep 2001 08:06:58 -0400
From:      Gerald A.Speak <gaspeak@va.prestige.net>
To:        Jarrod Sayers <jarrod.sayers@unisa.edu.au>, "Paul A. Howes" <pahowes@fair-ware.com>
Cc:        <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Ethernet Card Recommendation...
Message-ID:  <20010902120700.68DF537B407@hub.freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <20010902105247.F8879-100000@sanctuary.magill.unisa.edu.au>
References:  <20010902105247.F8879-100000@sanctuary.magill.unisa.edu.au>

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On Saturday 01 September 2001 09:26 pm, Jarrod Sayers wrote:
> On Sat, 1 Sep 2001, Paul A. Howes wrote:
> > All-
> >
> > I plan to upgrade my home network shortly.  I am currently using an
> > 8-port, 10 Mbps 3Com hub and 3C509B Ethernet cards.  What I have been
> > looking at is the 8-port, Netgear FS108 10/100 switch ($70), and their
> > FA311 10/100 network cards ($20/ea.)
> >
> > Although I have used their network cards on Windows machines very
> > successfully, I would like to know if they are compatible with FreeBSD? 

For what it's worth I've been using several FA310tx (de0) for the past three 
years without any problems.  I Recently upgraded to a MB with a 133Mhz FSB 
and the network card to a FA312 (sis0)  I had nothing but problems until I 
switched back to the FA310tx.

>
> They are.  We use a few here at work.  The FA310's are detected as dc0 and
> ive noticed that the FA311's are detected at sis0.
>
> device          dc              # DEC/Intel 21143 and various workalikes
> device          sis             # Silicon Integrated Systems SiS 900/SiS
> 7016
>
> > looked through the LINT file, and saw that they were mentioned as
> > supported, but I wonder what that level of support is?  I know that the
> > Intel cards are the "best supported" with the 3C9xx series being a close
> > second, but they
>
> All of our servers have Intel EtherExpress 100b's, they are very nice
> NIC's but more expensive ;)
>
> > tend to be more expensive than the Netgear cards.  The fact that Netgear
> > is really a business unit Bay Networking doesn't exactly hurt my
> > feelings, either :-)
> >
> > Thanks!
>
> Jarrod Sayers
> Information Technologist
> School of Communication, Information and New Media
> University of South Australia, Magill Campus.
> Phone: +61 8 83024045
> Fax: +61 8 83024745
>
>
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