From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 20 10:41:59 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id KAA25611 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 20 Nov 1997 10:41:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id KAA25606 for ; Thu, 20 Nov 1997 10:41:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id KAA04849; Thu, 20 Nov 1997 10:41:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Thu, 20 Nov 1997 10:41:54 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: "Michael W. Lucas" cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: good PCI NICs? In-Reply-To: <199711201252.HAA12628@bigbrother.rust.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 20 Nov 1997, Michael W. Lucas wrote: > After extensive testing, we had settled on the Linksys PCI NIC card as an > office standard. NE2000 PCI cards. Yuck. :-( Or are these de2404x based? > Rather than going through another round of tests, does anyone have any > opinions/suggestions for PCI NICs for FreeBSD? Intel EtherExpress Pro/100B. For newer versions of FreeBSD the Dayna or Kingston PCI cards should work fine. I need to try my Kingston and makes sure it works with the newer de code in 2.2.5. > We need a card that can be configured using a single Win95 boot floppy, > and that can easily be assigned a wide variety of IRQs and memory > addresses. (We frequently have several NICs in one box.) Performance is > also important. PCI configures itself, so you don't need a setup program. Whether they clash with one another s a function of your BIOS's PCI setup. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major