From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 20 20:17:27 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id UAA10064 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 20 Nov 1997 20:17:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from luke.cpl.net (luke.cpl.net [207.67.172.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id UAA10058 for ; Thu, 20 Nov 1997 20:17:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from shawn@luke.cpl.net) Received: from localhost (shawn@localhost) by luke.cpl.net (8.8.8/8.6.12) with SMTP id UAA02776 for ; Thu, 20 Nov 1997 20:16:26 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 20 Nov 1997 20:16:25 -0800 (PST) From: Shawn Ramsey cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Is NE2000 network card OK? In-Reply-To: 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 > > NE2000 cards are supported fine, just don't be surprised when it dies a > > few months down the road. Which they DO, its happened many times to me. > > you've just had bad luck with them. I have one in eot.cs.uoregon.edu, > doing mail relaying and web mirroring for FreeBSD, and haven't had a > problem since I bouth that card three years ago. > > It's also old enough to not be Plug&Pray. Today's Plug&Prayc ards ..., > well, suck. The NE2000 plug n' pray are terrible. Last one I tried didnt want to work, although I didnt put much effort into it. It was much easier to swap it with a plug n' pray PCI NE2000. :) (which is auto-detected by FreeBSD) Have had some good luck with 3Com 3c509's and DEC's 2104x cards.