From owner-freebsd-isp Sat Aug 1 19:20:39 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA19209 for freebsd-isp-outgoing; Sat, 1 Aug 1998 19:20:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from postal.c-zone.net (postal.c-zone.net [207.211.22.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA19204 for ; Sat, 1 Aug 1998 19:20:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from medlir@c-zone.net) Received: from localhost (medlir@localhost) by postal.c-zone.net (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id TAA28575; Sat, 1 Aug 1998 19:19:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from medlir@c-zone.net) Date: Sat, 1 Aug 1998 19:19:34 -0700 (PDT) From: Dan Babb To: Andre Albsmeier cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Intel EthernetExpress PRO/100 In-Reply-To: <199808011433.QAA20526@internal> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org i don't know how i got it. i just told my owner to get me some 100mb ethernet cards that i i could set the irq's manually, and that they were isa. so that is what i ended up with. the last time i tried a PCI card for bsd .. it was plug and play and i couldn't get it to detect. thanks for the info i'm ordering a pci Intel card on monday .. dan network administrator : computer zone internet hell is the possibility of sanity On Sat, 1 Aug 1998, Andre Albsmeier wrote: > I was told that the ISA version is not supported under FreeBSD. > > I (personally) think also it never will be supported since > > a) it is rather expensive (at least here in germany it's 200 US$) > b) the ISA bus probably won't handle 100MBit speeds (maybe yes) > c) I think there aren't many ISA machines connected to a 100 MB net > > Yes, get the Intel EtherExpress Pro 10/100B Ethernet for PCI; in > germany it's about 60 US$. I am rather curious how you got the > 100MB ISA version, it's very difficult to get. > > -Andre > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message