From owner-freebsd-isp Fri Jan 24 13:23:12 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id NAA20397 for isp-outgoing; Fri, 24 Jan 1997 13:23:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from DNS.Lamb.net (root@DNS.Lamb.net [207.90.181.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA20384 for ; Fri, 24 Jan 1997 13:23:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from PacBell.TelcoSucks.org (ulf@PacBell.TelcoSucks.org [207.90.181.5]) by DNS.Lamb.net (8.8.5/20.74.3.14) with SMTP id NAA15890; Fri, 24 Jan 1997 13:22:57 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <3.0.32.19970124132441.00742de0@Gatekeeper-3.Lamb.net> X-Sender: ulf@Gatekeeper-3.Lamb.net X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0 (32) Date: Fri, 24 Jan 1997 13:24:42 -0800 To: "Eric J. Schwertfeger" , Victor Rotanov From: Ulf Zimmermann Subject: Re: cheap and good network cards Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-isp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk At 11:12 AM 1/24/97 -0800, Eric J. Schwertfeger wrote: > > >On Fri, 24 Jan 1997, Victor Rotanov wrote: > >> Hi. >> >> Dont know if this question belongs here, but anyway... >> >> What cheap and good 10mbit network cards exist that will work both under >> freebsd and win95? >> >> Things like surecom do not work on all systems and 3com is too expensive... > >My favorite 10mbit ISA card are the SMC's. CompUSA has the EtherEZ for >$100, so you should be able to find it for less. > >If that doesn't count as cheap, then look for a decent NE2000 clone. It >will eat more CPU time, and i get better transfer rates out of the SMCs >(though not by much). We use $35 clones from just about any source. The >biggest difference I've found is that while almost all are software-setup >only now, some will only let you set up the first card it finds. Others >will list all cards and let you choose which one to use. Kingston has a PCI card based on the Dec 21040 (I think), which should work fine under WinSHit95 and FreeBSD. The price I have seen for it, were around $55 or less Ulf. ----------------------------------------------------------- Alameda Networks, Inc. | Ulf Zimmermann (ulf@Alameda.net) 1525 Pacific Avenue | Phone: (510)769-2936 Alameda, CA 94501 | Fax : (510)521-5073