Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2001 10:56:50 +0930 (CST) From: Jarrod Sayers <jarrod.sayers@unisa.edu.au> To: "Paul A. Howes" <pahowes@fair-ware.com> Cc: <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Ethernet Card Recommendation... Message-ID: <20010902105247.F8879-100000@sanctuary.magill.unisa.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <ABENJKDFOLCKBPLGACFDIEGDDDAA.pahowes@fair-ware.com>
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On Sat, 1 Sep 2001, Paul A. Howes wrote: > 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 They are. We use a few here at work. The FA310's are detected as dc0 and ive noticed that the FA311's are detected at sis0. device dc # DEC/Intel 21143 and various workalikes device sis # Silicon Integrated Systems SiS 900/SiS 7016 > 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 All of our servers have Intel EtherExpress 100b's, they are very nice NIC's but more expensive ;) > 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! Jarrod Sayers Information Technologist School of Communication, Information and New Media University of South Australia, Magill Campus. Phone: +61 8 83024045 Fax: +61 8 83024745 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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