From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Sep 1 7:39:54 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from ns17.u-build-it.net (ns17.u-build-it.net [66.33.65.140]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2FB4A37B407 for ; Sat, 1 Sep 2001 07:39:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from h0020af68b314.ne.mediaone.net ([66.31.120.94] helo=beast) by ns17.u-build-it.net with smtp (Exim 3.22 #1) id 15dBw1-00086c-00 for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Sat, 01 Sep 2001 10:39:45 -0400 Reply-To: From: "Paul A. Howes" To: Subject: Ethernet Card Recommendation... Date: Sat, 1 Sep 2001 10:39:48 -0400 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - ns17.u-build-it.net X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - freebsd.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [0 0] / [0 0] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - fair-ware.com 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 All- I plan to upgrade my home network shortly. I am currently using an 8-port, 10 Mbps 3Com hub and 3C509B Ethernet cards. What I have been looking at is the 8-port, Netgear FS108 10/100 switch ($70), and their FA311 10/100 network cards ($20/ea.) Although I have used their network cards on Windows machines very successfully, I would like to know if they are compatible with FreeBSD? I looked through the LINT file, and saw that they were mentioned as supported, but I wonder what that level of support is? I know that the Intel cards are the "best supported" with the 3C9xx series being a close second, but they tend to be more expensive than the Netgear cards. The fact that Netgear is really a business unit Bay Networking doesn't exactly hurt my feelings, either :-) Thanks! -- Paul A. Howes pahowes@fair-ware.com If you would like my PGP key, send a blank e-mail to pgpkey@fair-ware.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message