From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Oct 11 18: 0:27 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from freeway.dcfinc.com (cx74889-a.phnx3.az.home.com [24.1.193.157]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E8BE014BE5 for ; Mon, 11 Oct 1999 18:00:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chad@freeway.dcfinc.com) Received: (from chad@localhost) by freeway.dcfinc.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA08021; Mon, 11 Oct 1999 17:59:59 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from chad) From: "Chad R. Larson" Message-Id: <199910120059.RAA08021@freeway.dcfinc.com> Subject: Re: NE2000 In-Reply-To: <199910120025.RAA02976@dingo.cdrom.com> from Mike Smith at "Oct 11, 99 05:25:09 pm" To: mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith) Date: Mon, 11 Oct 1999 17:59:58 -0700 (MST) Cc: jdn@acp.qiv.com, fatall@sheltonbbs.com, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: chad@DCFinc.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL40 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG As I recall, Mike Smith wrote: >> On Sun, 10 Oct 1999, Jimmy Zongos wrote: >> >>>Anyone know were to buy a NE2000 compatible card for pretty cheap >>>Anyone that will work in freebsd >> >> Addtron's AE-200PNP-C currently sells for about $16.00. It's dumb as a >> brick, no collision detection and slower than snot, but it works with >> the ed driver. > > For about $2.oo more you can get a "real" 10/100 card. I can't see the > savings, myself. Intel EtherExpress Pro 10/100B with the fxp driver have been rock solid for me. Avoiding hassles is worth more than a couple of bucks in my world. -crl -- Chad R. Larson (CRL15) 602-953-1392 Brother, can you paradigm? chad@dcfinc.com chad@larsons.org larson1@home.net DCF, Inc. - 14623 North 49th Place, Scottsdale, Arizona 85254-2207 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message