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Date:      Thu, 24 Feb 2000 13:59:43 -0600
From:      "Jeffrey J. Mountin" <jeff-ml@mountin.net>
To:        Jon Rust <jpr@vcnet.com>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: good network card (xl0 packet dropping)
Message-ID:  <3.0.3.32.20000224135943.00a175e0@207.227.119.2>
In-Reply-To: <v0421011ab4db30557c5f@[209.239.239.22]>
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At 11:05 AM 2/24/00 -0800, Jon Rust wrote:
>This is why I won't use 10/100 Intel cards. I've had numerous 
>problems with them and my cisco cat 2924. They really don't seem to 
>like talking to another auto-negotiating device. I end up having to 
>manually set one side (or both) to get it to work. An unnecessary 
>pain in the arse if you ask me. It's been a while since I tried, so 
>maybe it was a driver issue and was fixed. For my money, the Kingston 
>kne100tx's work fine, and the lne100tx's from Linksys do as well. No 
>superlatives, they just work.

Judging from the other responses and from my experience with 29xx and 19xx
you seems be the odd man out.  The Intel's worked with either FBSD or Win
9x/NT no problem.

Betting on a diver issue.


Jeff Mountin - jeff@mountin.net
Systems/Network Administrator
FreeBSD - the power to serve



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