From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Sep 1 18:26:59 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from sanctuary.magill.unisa.edu.au (sanctuary.magill.unisa.edu.au [130.220.227.239]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E7BB37B40A for ; Sat, 1 Sep 2001 18:26:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (sayersjm@localhost) by sanctuary.magill.unisa.edu.au (8.11.6/8.11.4) with ESMTP id f821Qo708966; Sun, 2 Sep 2001 10:56:55 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from jarrod.sayers@unisa.edu.au) Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2001 10:56:50 +0930 (CST) From: Jarrod Sayers X-X-Sender: To: "Paul A. Howes" Cc: Subject: Re: Ethernet Card Recommendation... In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20010902105247.F8879-100000@sanctuary.magill.unisa.edu.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 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