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Date:      Thu, 29 Jan 1998 20:03:38 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Elliot Finley <efinley@castlenet.com>
Cc:        "Aaron D. Gifford" <agifford@infowest.com>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Asus P2L97 motherboard
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980129200229.1248L-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <34d05a38.23217652@castlenet.com>

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On Tue, 27 Jan 1998, Elliot Finley wrote:

> On Tue, 27 Jan 1998 14:14:33 -0700, you wrote:
> 
> I'm using a P2L97 with a Pentium II 233...  Works great!  I'm using a
> Adaptec 2940UW with it.  I tried the RealTek 10/100 NIC (NE2000) with
> the 8129 chip... Didn't work, FreeBSD couldn't detect it.  So I had to
> go back to the RealTek 10 (NE2000) with the 8029 chip...

Yuck.  You're hindering yourself with that NE2000... the Digital-based
cards (dayna, kingston, etc) are heads better and about the same price. 

Get 'em while you can before Compaq shuts the door on them...

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major





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