From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Nov 6 10:45:28 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from turtle.looksharp.net (cc360882-d.strhg1.mi.home.com [24.13.43.207]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 96E9837B419; Tue, 6 Nov 2001 10:45:24 -0800 (PST) Received: by turtle.looksharp.net (Postfix, from userid 1003) id AA7E93EB7; Tue, 6 Nov 2001 13:45:58 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by turtle.looksharp.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id A6F84BAA6; Tue, 6 Nov 2001 13:45:58 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2001 13:45:58 -0500 (EST) From: "Brandon D. Valentine" To: Mike Smith Cc: "Jeroen C. van Gelderen" , Marcel Prisi , Subject: Re: What NIC to choose ? In-Reply-To: <200111061840.fA6Iea201264@mass.dis.org> Message-ID: <20011106134448.T44147-100000@turtle.looksharp.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 On Tue, 6 Nov 2001, Mike Smith wrote: >> Indeed that would be unfair. Here is one particular model that I have >> found to suck. =) >> >> Ethernet controller: LiteOn LNE100TX (rev 32). >... >> >My experience with the Linksys LNE100TX 4.1 (ADMtek chipset) >> >has been nothing but positive, despite the fact that it is >> >a tulip clone. Which were the exact types of cards that you >> >had fail? >> >> Exactly the same card. You may have had positive experiences with 'em, >> but I have seen too many keel over dead. > >Actually, those are two totally different cards; they just happen to have >the same product name. > >The key difference is the MAC; LiteOn vs. ADMtek. Thanks for the correction, Mike. With so many rebadged NICs running around it's getting difficult to keep track of who's parts are where. -- "Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today. There might be a law against it by that time." -- /usr/games/fortune, 07/30/2001 Brandon D. Valentine To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message