Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 18:24:52 -0400 From: "Doug Reynolds" <mav@wastegate.net> To: "Andrew C. Hornback" <achornback@worldnet.att.net>, "FreeBSD Mailing List" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>, "Gary Kline" <kline@tao.thought.org> Subject: RE: NE2000 compat?? Message-ID: <20010831072644.E25B137B406@hub.freebsd.org>
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On Thu, 30 Aug 2001 00:56:24 -0400, Andrew C. Hornback wrote: >> -----Original Message----- >> From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Gary Kline >> Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2001 12:49 AM >> To: FreeBSD Mailing List >> Subject: NE2000 compat?? >> >> I'm looking at the following 3 NIC's. Are any of these NE2000 >> clones? I've had lots of luck with my LynkSys cards and it makes >> sense to stick with the card architecture that works. >> >> Intel PCI 10/100 LAN card...$49 >> 3Com PCI 10/100 LAN card...$49 >> SMC PCI 10/100 LAN card...$25 > > First of all, you can dismiss the 3Com out of hand immediately. Unless you >crave headaches, these aren't the ones you want to deal with. > > Second of all, find out what model the SMC is. If it's a 9432TX, it will >work very well with FreeBSD (if it doesn't, let me know and if we can't get >it working, I'll buy it). > > FreeBSD has very good support for Intel NICs, so they would be a good >solution too. I don't know- i've have good luck with the PCI 905TX's i had- and I got one for free (has boot rom too) and the two other ones were $25 on ebay --- doug reynolds | the maverick | mav@wastegate.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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