From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Nov 5 11:41:24 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from cypherpunks.cryptohill.net (sub-168ip36.carats.net [216.152.168.36]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 118BD37B41A for ; Mon, 5 Nov 2001 11:41:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from vangelderen.org (sub-168ip56.carats.net [216.152.168.56]) by cypherpunks.cryptohill.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D3D01C901; Mon, 5 Nov 2001 15:41:00 -0400 (AST) Message-ID: <3BE6EB48.7020404@vangelderen.org> Date: Mon, 05 Nov 2001 15:40:56 -0400 From: "Jeroen C. van Gelderen" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.4) Gecko/20010913 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Marcel Prisi Cc: stable@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-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi Marcel, Marcel Prisi wrote: > After having loads of trouble with Intel Etherexpress, Netgear, and others > NIC, what card REALLY work on FreeBSD ? I would definately recommend the Linksys LNE100TX revision 4.1 cards. In my experience this is a very reliable DEC/Intel 21143 clone based on the ADMtek AN985 chipset. And they are cheap, around $20 at Sparco for instance. Never seen one fail. This card uses the dc(4) driver on -STABLE: dc0: port 0xa000-0xa0ff mem 0xe2000000-0xe20003ff irq 11 at device 12.0 on pci0 Linksys now has a LNE100TX revision 5.0 with the same chipset but lacking a bootrom socket. Should work fine. While I have never had complaints about 3Com cards I find that their cards have a rather unfavourable price/performance ratio. I still use four <3Com 3c905B-TX Fast Etherlink XL> with the xl(4) driver on -STABLE but that is merely because I had them lying around. No problems there. We previously used Intel EtherExpress cards because they were supposedly high-performance and reliable but we ran into big problems when they were deployed in our 2U riser cards: data corruption, probably timing related. At -then- $80 a piece that was unacceptable and I would not recommend these cards. HTH, Jeroen -- Jeroen C. van Gelderen -- jeroen@vangelderen.org An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind. -- Gandhi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message