Date: Mon, 3 May 1999 22:15:17 +0200 (CEST) From: Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl> To: wes@softweyr.com (Wes Peters) Cc: shocking@prth.pgs.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Decent network cards for 100Mbit? Message-ID: <199905032015.WAA01206@yedi.iaf.nl> In-Reply-To: <372DEF0E.67B76176@softweyr.com> from Wes Peters at "May 3, 1999 12:46:38 pm"
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As Wes Peters wrote ... > 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. I got older ones, work fine with 3.1-stable and -current here. Never seen a 905B yet. Groeten / Cheers, | / o / / _ Arnhem, The Netherlands - Powered by FreeBSD - |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte WWW : http://www.tcja.nl http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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