From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 5 10:53: 4 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from clmboh1-smtp3.columbus.rr.com (clmboh1-smtp3.columbus.rr.com [65.24.0.112]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5DE9A37B405 for ; Mon, 5 Nov 2001 10:52:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from potentialtech.com (dhcp065-024-023-038.columbus.rr.com [65.24.23.38]) by clmboh1-smtp3.columbus.rr.com (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id fA5ImXT11819; Mon, 5 Nov 2001 13:48:33 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <3BE6E073.7080304@potentialtech.com> Date: Mon, 05 Nov 2001 13:54:43 -0500 From: Bill Moran Organization: Potential Technology User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:0.9.3) Gecko/20010914 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Marcel Prisi Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What NIC to choose ? References: <019a01c16629$4b151650$8d01a8c0@gastroleader.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [This question should be probably be posted to questions@ instead of stable@] Marcel Prisi wrote: >Hi all ! > >After having loads of trouble with Intel Etherexpress, Netgear, and others >NIC, what card REALLY work on FreeBSD ? > I've used Intel Etherexpress cards in a number of FreeBSD installations (in fact, it's what I have in the machine I'm using now) with no problems. I have heard of the "on board" Etherexpress causing trouble, so it might be a good idea to avoid those. additionally, I've used all manner of 3com cards without problem. -- Bill Moran Potential Technology http://www.potentialtech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message