From owner-freebsd-hardware Fri Jul 7 12: 1:18 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from pike.osd.bsdi.com (pike.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.222]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EFEF837BDDE for ; Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:01:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhb@foo.osd.bsdi.com) Received: from foo.osd.bsdi.com (root@foo.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.137]) by pike.osd.bsdi.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA55507; Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:00:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhb@foo.osd.bsdi.com) Received: (from jhb@localhost) by foo.osd.bsdi.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id MAA21326; Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:00:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhb) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2000 12:00:30 -0700 (PDT) Organization: BSD, Inc. From: John Baldwin To: Chris Dillon Subject: Re: New system for FreeBSD -- pls advise Cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG, jfb@visi.com Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 06-Jul-00 Chris Dillon wrote: > On Thu, 6 Jul 2000 jfb@visi.com wrote: > >> Hello, all, >> >> I'm looking at getting a brand new box at home, and want to make sure >> that I don't end up with components that will preclude me from using >> my OS of choice. >> >> Currently, my hardware selections are as follows: >> >> 3Com 3c905b ethernet > > One word: yuck. Get an Intel EtherExpress PRO 10/100B. Why yuck? Both of these ethernet cards work quite well. > -- Chris Dillon - cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us - cdillon@inter-linc.net -- John Baldwin -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.cslab.vt.edu/~jobaldwi/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message