From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jun 11 14:31:36 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from samba.bjwcs.com (samba.bjwcs.com [192.148.252.36]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF68537B81B for ; Sun, 11 Jun 2000 14:31:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brently@bjwcs.com) Received: from rhumba (cx453106-a.elcjn1.sdca.home.com [24.21.8.120]) by samba.bjwcs.com (Postfix) with SMTP id 5215B425A; Sun, 11 Jun 2000 17:31:31 -0400 (EDT) From: "Brent Wiese" To: "Fatbob" Cc: Subject: RE: PCI NICs that use the DEC Tulip driver? Date: Sun, 11 Jun 2000 14:27:54 -0700 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6700 In-Reply-To: Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > My question is ... can someone recommend PCI 10/100 NICs that > use the DEC > > Tulip driver (the 'de' interface), are still available, and > will work with > > the 21040 driver under FreeBSD-2.1.0? I'm not picky as to model (SMC, > > Linksys, DEC, etc.) - I just need to find one that works. > > I believe the Kingston 100TX use this chip. I know for a fact they > use the de driver though. > > > Rick The Kingston cards are a newer Intel version of this chip. I've found them to be a bit flaky w/ the de driver. If its low traffic you'll probably be ok. When Intel bought DEC, they discontinued this chip, which is too bad because it rocks. The old Netgear cards used this chip. You might be able to find one on an auction or something. Cheers, Brent To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message