From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 29 22:26: 2 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from tao.thought.org (sense-kline-249.oz.net [216.39.168.249]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0038F37B403 for ; Wed, 29 Aug 2001 22:25:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: (from kline@localhost) by tao.thought.org (8.11.3/8.11.0) id f7U5PqT39875; Wed, 29 Aug 2001 22:25:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline) Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2001 22:25:52 -0700 From: Gary Kline To: "Andrew C. Hornback" Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: NE2000 compat?? Message-ID: <20010829222552.B39701@tao.thought.org> References: <200108300449.f7U4nJW39738@tao.thought.org> <002701c13110$1eca59a0$0e00000a@tomcat> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <002701c13110$1eca59a0$0e00000a@tomcat>; from achornback@worldnet.att.net on Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 12:56:24AM -0400 X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: Observing 15 years of service to the Unix community Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 12:56:24AM -0400, Andrew C. Hornback wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > > From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Gary Kline > > Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2001 12:49 AM > > To: FreeBSD Mailing List > > Subject: NE2000 compat?? > > > > I'm looking at the following 3 NIC's. Are any of these NE2000 > > clones? I've had lots of luck with my LynkSys cards and it makes > > sense to stick with the card architecture that works. > > > > Intel PCI 10/100 LAN card...$49 > > 3Com PCI 10/100 LAN card...$49 > > SMC PCI 10/100 LAN card...$25 > > First of all, you can dismiss the 3Com out of hand immediately. Unless you > crave headaches, these aren't the ones you want to deal with. > > Second of all, find out what model the SMC is. If it's a 9432TX, it will > work very well with FreeBSD (if it doesn't, let me know and if we can't get > it working, I'll buy it). > > FreeBSD has very good support for Intel NICs, so they would be a good > solution too. > Thanks for the tips. I'll check on the SMC model. When I checked the archives, tho, I saw only evil comments about the SMC, --Maybe it was the ISA flavor. If nothing else, I'll go for the Intel card since lots of people use it. gary > -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public service Unix To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message