From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Apr 28 18: 8:26 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from lariat.lariat.org (lariat.lariat.org [206.100.185.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9318F37B723 for ; Fri, 28 Apr 2000 18:08:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brett@lariat.org) Received: from mustang.lariat.org (IDENT:ppp0.lariat.org@lariat.lariat.org [206.100.185.2]) by lariat.lariat.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA10989; Fri, 28 Apr 2000 19:07:58 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <4.3.1.2.20000428190631.04531a10@localhost> X-Sender: brett@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.1 Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2000 19:07:44 -0600 To: Chris Dillon , "Dale E. Chulhan" From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: Best NIC / Best CDR-CDRW Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: References: <38FCAC4B.1B007400@uwi.tt> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 02:37 PM 4/18/2000, Chris Dillon wrote: >The Intel EtherExpress PRO 10/100 family (anything based on the 82558B >or 82559) is probably the best 10/100 NIC you can find for FreeBSD. >I'm also using this card family with several hundred Windows systems >here, and have had zero trouble. While going through a local company's junkbox, I came upon a NIC which has an Intel *82557* chip. How does this compare to the later ones? Will it work with FreeBSD's fxp driver? Will it do 100BaseTX full duplex? --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message