Date: Mon, 03 May 1999 12:46:38 -0600 From: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> To: Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl> Cc: Stephen Hocking-Senior Programmer PGS Tensor Perth <shocking@prth.pgs.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Decent network cards for 100Mbit? Message-ID: <372DEF0E.67B76176@softweyr.com> References: <199905031549.RAA08918@yedi.iaf.nl>
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Wilko Bulte wrote:
>
> As Stephen Hocking-Senior Programmer PGS Tensor Perth wrote ...
> >
> > Having discovered that the Realtek chipset is a flatulent sack of pus, I'm
> > wondering what results people have had with other PCI network cards, and what
> > order of preference they'd put them in.
>
> I'm quite happy with the 3Com Etherlink III aka 3C905.
I've been able to get 3c905s to work OK in 2.2.x and 3.x, but you can't
buy them anymore. The 3c905B you can buy now doesn't seem to work in
any release. Much work has been going on on the xl driver recently
to make the 905B actually work, but I've just replaced my 905s and 905Bs.
--
"Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?"
Wes Peters Softweyr LLC
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