From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 20 6:47:14 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail2.rdc3.on.home.com (mail2.rdc3.on.home.com [24.2.9.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 894D437BDE5 for ; Thu, 20 Apr 2000 06:47:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from antipode@thpoon.com) Received: from tea.thpoon.com ([24.114.152.71]) by mail2.rdc3.on.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.02.00 201-229-116) with ESMTP id <20000420134654.QAVN910.mail2.rdc3.on.home.com@tea.thpoon.com> for ; Thu, 20 Apr 2000 06:46:54 -0700 Received: from antipode by tea.thpoon.com with local (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 12iHIE-0000kl-00 for ; Thu, 20 Apr 2000 09:46:54 -0400 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Just got my DSL today...AARGH!! References: X-Face: 0=A/O5-+sE[Tf%X>rYr?Y5LD4,:^'jaJ!4jC&UR*ZrrK2>^`g22Qeb]!:d;}2YJ|Hq"LHdF OX`jWX|AT-WVFQ(TPhFVak)0nt$aEdlOq=1~D,:\z5QlVOrZ2(H,mKg=Xr|'VlHA="r Organization: thpoon.com From: Arcady Genkin Date: 20 Apr 2000 09:46:54 -0400 In-Reply-To: R Joseph Wright's message of "Wed, 19 Apr 2000 23:29:43 -0700 (PDT)" Message-ID: <87ln28evg1.fsf@tea.thpoon.com> Lines: 24 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0804 (Gnus v5.8.4) XEmacs/21.1 (Bryce Canyon) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG R Joseph Wright writes: > I just spent about 2 1/2 hours in windows trying to get the card to work > using downloaded drivers. I've concluded that tomorrow I'll go buy a well > known, well supported one. Any recommendations? Preferrably cheap. The funny part is that an el-cheapo ISA NE2000 card is all you would need for a DSL connection. When I had my DSL, the downstream was 1Mbs, while an ne2k allows for 10Mbs. My advice is to buy one of those with drivers and documentation, and you will get it working in no time. If you want to get something better, Intel EtherExpress 100+ is reportedly one of the best cards on the market. D-Link DFE-530TX (not TX+) is also a good deal for a 100Mbps. It uses via-rhine chip and is *very* cheap. But, again, for what you doing really any working card would do. RealTek 8139 - chip based cards are very cheap, and are a no-brainer to configure, since they are PCI cards. Check the manpages for fxp, vr, and rl. ;^) -- Arcady Genkin http://www.thpoon.com Nostalgia isn't what it used to be. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message