From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 14 13:51:16 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DBD7437B400 for ; Wed, 14 Aug 2002 13:51:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from server.rucus.ru.ac.za (server.rucus.ru.ac.za [146.231.115.1]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id AB74D43E6A for ; Wed, 14 Aug 2002 13:51:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from drs@rucus.ru.ac.za) Received: (qmail 46944 invoked from network); 14 Aug 2002 20:51:02 -0000 Received: from bashir.dsl.ru.ac.za (146.231.113.19) by server.rucus.ru.ac.za with SMTP; 14 Aug 2002 20:51:02 -0000 Received: (qmail 31676 invoked by uid 1001); 14 Aug 2002 20:51:02 -0000 Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2002 22:51:02 +0200 From: David =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sieb=F6rger?= To: Lord Raiden Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Questions about Nics and Freebsd Message-ID: <20020814205102.GB31573@rucus.ru.ac.za> References: <4.2.0.58.20020814154637.00961960@pop.netzero.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <4.2.0.58.20020814154637.00961960@pop.netzero.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed 2002-08-14 (15:49), Lord Raiden wrote: > HI again all. Silly question. I've used almost exclusively 3com > nics in my equipment here and had almost zero troubles with them over the > long term. Problem is they're between 2 and 3 times as expensive as many > other nics out there. > > My questions are simple. > 1. Which nics work with freebsd and which don't? I've had bad experiences with a number of cards based on the RealTek 8139 (rl driver). From the comments in src/sys/pci/if_rl.c: * The RealTek 8139 PCI NIC redefines the meaning of 'low end.' This is * probably the worst PCI ethernet controller ever made, with the possible * exception of the FEAST chip made by SMC. ... I've had good experiences with Intel PRO/100 cards (fxp driver). YMMV. -- David Siebörger drs@rucus.ru.ac.za To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message