From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 29 22:33:49 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mtiwmhc26.worldnet.att.net (mtiwmhc26.worldnet.att.net [204.127.131.51]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 64A9737B406 for ; Wed, 29 Aug 2001 22:33:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from achornback@worldnet.att.net) Received: from tomcat ([12.93.210.132]) by mtiwmhc26.worldnet.att.net (InterMail vM.4.01.03.16 201-229-121-116-20010115) with SMTP id <20010830053344.YAZM26461.mtiwmhc26.worldnet.att.net@tomcat>; Thu, 30 Aug 2001 05:33:44 +0000 From: "Andrew C. Hornback" To: "Gary Kline" Cc: "FreeBSD Mailing List" Subject: RE: NE2000 compat?? Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 01:32:57 -0400 Message-ID: <003101c13115$39ed1ec0$0e00000a@tomcat> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 In-Reply-To: <20010829222552.B39701@tao.thought.org> Importance: Normal 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 > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Gary Kline > Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2001 1:26 AM > To: Andrew C. Hornback > Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List > Subject: Re: NE2000 compat?? > > 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. Well, let's put it this way... every machine on my network has an SMC NIC (with the exception of my HP NetServer which has an Intel chipset on the motherboard). I've got PCI and ISA SMC NICs going, without a hitch. 8216C, while being a tired old warrior, performs admirably as a 10 Base T card. The 9432TX is a PCI one step below SMC's server series of cards. The 1211TX and the 1244TX are both, I believe, based on the RealTek chipset (another major caveat, RealTek-based NICs are good to avoid, of course, YMMV). > If nothing else, I'll go for the Intel card since > lots of people use it. Can't go wrong with it. SMCs do perform admirably as well. --- Andy To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message