From owner-freebsd-newbies Thu Jan 24 20:34:49 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from joshua.nobaloney.net (joshua.nobaloney.net [63.108.93.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F26737B402 for ; Thu, 24 Jan 2002 20:34:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from nobaloney.net (adsl-64-170-55-19.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [64.170.55.19]) (authenticated) by ns1.ns-one.net (8.10.2/8.10.2) with ESMTP id g0P4YeH04450; Thu, 24 Jan 2002 20:34:40 -0800 Message-ID: <3C50E062.F405F343@nobaloney.net> Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2002 20:34:42 -0800 From: Jeff Lasman Organization: nobaloney.net X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en,en-US MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rick Hamell , freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Networking References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Rick Hamell wrote: > MrK1nt@aol.com wrote: > > Does anyone know a good NIC that wont give me alot headaches? While I've got no experience at all with NIC cards (I'm about to do my first freeBSD install, I was quite impressed recently to find out that SMC has 24/7 tech support. No kidding, I got someone who knew what they were doing (trying to install a DSL router) at 2 am. > Intel or Kingston. Stay away from SMC/Realtek and 3Com. Also > asking questions like this on -questions will yield better results. :) I'm absolutely willing to believe you, Rick. Can you tell us why you feel that way, though? Jeff -- Jeff Lasman nobaloney.net P. O. Box 52672, Riverside, CA 92517 voice: (909) 778-9980 * fax: (702) 548-9484 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message