Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2001 22:34:21 -0700 From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: "Gavin Kenny" <gavinkenny@yahoo.co.uk>, "Justin C Sherrill" <justin@shiningsilence.com>, <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Recommend a NIC Message-ID: <000c01c10f4b$4c383380$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> In-Reply-To: <20010717151619.49830.qmail@web20010.mail.yahoo.com>
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There's 2 things you have to do to fix the 3c509 for any one that cares: 1) Run it in a fast system (Pentium 200 or better) 2) Run the 3c509b version of the card The original 509's were very bad and would cause lots of problems particularly on slower systems Ted Mittelstaedt tedm@toybox.placo.com Author of: The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide Book website: http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com >-----Original Message----- >From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Gavin Kenny >Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2001 8:16 AM >To: Justin C Sherrill; questions@FreeBSD.ORG >Cc: Gavin Kenny >Subject: Re: Recommend a NIC > > >The trouble with the 3Com 509 is that it uses the ep >driver, which according to the archives of this list, >is flakey and I keep getting "No Buffer space >Available" messages which I have been told is down to >the ep driver. If this isn't the case and someone >knows how to fix it without using another type of NIC >(and therefore driver) please let me know. > >Cheers > >Gavin > > --- Justin C Sherrill <justin@shiningsilence.com> >wrote: > On Tuesday 17 July 2001 07:18, you wrote: >> >> > My boss has said I can buy some new NIC's. So what >> > does everyone suggest? >> >> Other than the occasional glitch, there's very >> little difference between >> Ethernet cards by manufacturer. Find a cheap one >> (or 10, in your case), make >> sure it's supported, and you will probably be OK. >> >> The difference between, say, a 3Com card and a >> generic card with a RealTek >> chipset is only the price. My workplace (cable ISP) >> installs/supplies >> several hundred Ethernet cards each week to new >> customers, and the average >> results have borne this out. >> >> Justin > >____________________________________________________________ >Do You Yahoo!? >Get your free @yahoo.co.uk address at http://mail.yahoo.co.uk >or your free @yahoo.ie address at http://mail.yahoo.ie > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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