Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 14:24:41 -0500 From: bind9 <bind9@citystamp.com> To: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net>, Eric Six <erics@sirsi.com> Cc: <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: NIC selection advice Message-ID: <B86C8F29.2CB8%bind9@citystamp.com> In-Reply-To: <20020117130645.A54384@grumpy.dyndns.org>
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on 1/17/02 2:06 PM, David Kelly at dkelly@hiwaay.net wrote: > On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 09:31:21AM -0600, Eric Six wrote: >> >> I have always had *good* luck with the dec2114xx chip sets. I have > > I notice both de(4) and dc(4) are said to support the Intel/DEC 21143. > So if one has one of these chips and is unhappy one might try the other > driver. > > Have never really stressed a FreeBSD machine with continuous heavy load > the way David Greenman did but have always been happy with his choice of > ethernet card based on the Intel 8225[789]. Common enough that pulls are > aften found at flea markets and misc. used computer parts sources such > as http://www.compgeeks.com/products.asp?cat=NET. > > A while back they had manufactured-for-Gateway Intel 10/100's for $8. > Currently shows a "Management Adapter" for $20. Or possibly back to the > DEC chipset a Kingston KNE100TX for $8. I did notice that. Again, my problem there is that the dc(4) driver doesn't show up in the list of inactive drivers in user.config via the stand/sysintall utility. I don't know enough to figure how to get it used as the driver. I'm still running the GENERIC kernel while I get all this buttoned down so it's in there somewhere according to the docs. Thanks Much!! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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