From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 10 9: 6:42 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from edwin.mounet.com (edwin.mounet.com [216.145.76.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 29BC737B422 for ; Tue, 10 Apr 2001 09:06:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hornback@wireco.net) Received: (qmail 5455 invoked by uid 0); 10 Apr 2001 15:02:10 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO tomcat) (216.145.67.94) by mounet.com with SMTP; 10 Apr 2001 15:02:10 -0000 From: "Andrew C. Hornback" To: "Gunther Schadow" Cc: "FreeBSD Questions" Subject: RE: Who's got the cheapest 100-BT Ethernet NIC? Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 11:18:04 -0400 Message-ID: <004d01c0c1d1$709ae960$0e00000a@tomcat> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 In-Reply-To: <3AD21AE1.F715330E@aurora.regenstrief.org> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG SMC 9432TX - Should retail anywhere between $15 and $30. SMC calls it = legacy hardware, which I think is a ploy on their part to make every buy = newer stuff. I have 5 of these cards, plus spares, and have never had a = problem. =20 It's the only NIC that I've owned thay every OS I've thrown at it will = recognize it. In FreeBSD, these cards use the tx driver. I'll even go this far, showing that I love these cards... if you get = one and don't like it, I'll buy it from you at what you paid for it.=20 --- Andy (no, I don't work for SMC, but if they're looking... I'm available) > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Gunther = Schadow > Sent: Monday, April 09, 2001 4:26 PM > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Who's got the cheapest 100-BT Ethernet NIC? >=20 > Hi, >=20 > I know the Ethernet cards for 20 bucks are available from Hawking or=20 > Kingston or what those brand names are. But I don't know whether they > work well with FreeBSD and the notes in the LINT kernel are not > exhaustive on these cheap OEM and whatever products. Please everyone=20 > who believes he's got one 100-BT PCI card for below $50 working well,=20 > I would appreciate hearing which card it is, which driver you use.=20 > Also if you have had problems with cheap cards please let me know too. = >=20 > Thanks much! > -Gunther To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message