Date: Mon, 05 Nov 2001 15:40:56 -0400 From: "Jeroen C. van Gelderen" <jeroen@vangelderen.org> To: Marcel Prisi <marcel-lists@virtua.ch> Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What NIC to choose ? Message-ID: <3BE6EB48.7020404@vangelderen.org> References: <019a01c16629$4b151650$8d01a8c0@gastroleader.com>
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Hi Marcel,
Marcel Prisi wrote:
> After having loads of trouble with Intel Etherexpress, Netgear, and others
> NIC, what card REALLY work on FreeBSD ?
I would definately recommend the Linksys LNE100TX revision 4.1
cards. In my experience this is a very reliable DEC/Intel 21143
clone based on the ADMtek AN985 chipset. And they are cheap,
around $20 at Sparco for instance. Never seen one fail.
This card uses the dc(4) driver on -STABLE:
dc0: <ADMtek AN985 10/100BaseTX> port 0xa000-0xa0ff mem
0xe2000000-0xe20003ff irq 11 at device 12.0 on pci0
Linksys now has a LNE100TX revision 5.0 with the same chipset
but lacking a bootrom socket. Should work fine.
While I have never had complaints about 3Com cards I find that
their cards have a rather unfavourable price/performance ratio.
I still use four <3Com 3c905B-TX Fast Etherlink XL> with the
xl(4) driver on -STABLE but that is merely because I had them
lying around. No problems there.
We previously used Intel EtherExpress cards because they were
supposedly high-performance and reliable but we ran into big
problems when they were deployed in our 2U riser cards: data
corruption, probably timing related. At -then- $80 a piece that
was unacceptable and I would not recommend these cards.
HTH,
Jeroen
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Jeroen C. van Gelderen -- jeroen@vangelderen.org
An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind. -- Gandhi
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