From owner-freebsd-net Sun Sep 16 11:43: 8 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from fepE.post.tele.dk (fepE.post.tele.dk [195.41.46.137]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DAEEB37B401 for ; Sun, 16 Sep 2001 11:43:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from arnold.neland.dk ([62.243.124.200]) by fepE.post.tele.dk (InterMail vM.4.01.03.21 201-229-121-121-20010307) with ESMTP id <20010916184304.HYXO13589.fepE.post.tele.dk@arnold.neland.dk> for ; Sun, 16 Sep 2001 20:43:04 +0200 Received: from gina ([192.168.5.109]) by arnold.neland.dk (8.11.5/8.11.5) with SMTP id f8GIjY574698 for ; Sun, 16 Sep 2001 20:45:35 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from leifn@neland.dk) Message-ID: <039101c13edf$4ef51c00$6d05a8c0@neland.dk> From: "Leif Neland" To: Subject: Davicom DM9102: Cheap, fast or reliable? Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2001 20:42:15 +0200 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org My local discount-pc dealer used to use realtec 8139's as a low cost, no name NIC. The realtec's appearently has a bad reputation. Now he carries a CNet 10/100, with a Davicom DM9102 chip on it. It is the same price, around $20 as the realtec's I have only tried it at 10Mb. Is Davicom better or worse than the realtec's? So far, the only difference is that davicom has better documentation, and is open-source friendly, it appears. They are even listed at www.freebsd.org/commercial/hardware.html (That at least seems to be a good reason to support Davicom...) Leif --- http://members.ud.com/services/teams/team.htm?id=C47FB770-0A0A-452B-88 51-874646C2B375 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message