From owner-freebsd-hardware Thu Jul 6 18:37:53 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from dt052n3e.san.rr.com (dt052n3e.san.rr.com [204.210.33.62]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8436C37BBBA for ; Thu, 6 Jul 2000 18:37:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Received: from slave (doug@slave [10.0.0.1]) by dt052n3e.san.rr.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA31973; Thu, 6 Jul 2000 18:37:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2000 18:37:41 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug Barton X-Sender: doug@dt052n3e.san.rr.com To: Chris Dillon Cc: jfb@visi.com, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: New system for FreeBSD -- pls advise In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, 6 Jul 2000, Chris Dillon wrote: > On Thu, 6 Jul 2000 jfb@visi.com wrote: > > 3Com 3c905b ethernet > > One word: yuck. Get an Intel EtherExpress PRO 10/100B. No such thing anymore. You want an Intel Pro/100+ Management Adapter. Check the archives for recent discussion on how Intel renamed and split their product line. > > Soundblaster Platinum Live sound card > > The driver for this isn't perfect yet, but I've heard quite a few > success reports. The new pcm sound driver is totally unstable for PCI sound cards, especially in combination with ECC ram. There are a few scattered success stories, but most of us are struggling mightily. HTH, Doug -- "Live free or die" - State motto of my ancestral homeland, New Hampshire Do YOU Yahoo!? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message