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Cc: King Wong <kingwong@agnesb.com.hk>,
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Subject: Re: Ethernet controllers
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> I think most ethernet cards are fine with FreeBSD, if you're prepared to 
> consider Project Evil aka ndisgen. [Warning: It's painful. Don't do it if you

the project evil works fine on one machine which motherboard has 
completely unknown ethernet card. and it works fine :)

> which isn't compatible with FreeBSD, you could try NetBSD. AFAICT NetBSD is 
> more about hardware compatibility than the other BSDs.

bce(4) looks like Broadcom Xtreme driver