From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Nov 7 05:41:18 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA03902 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 7 Nov 1998 05:41:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from junior.apk.net (junior.apk.net [207.54.158.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id FAA03896 for ; Sat, 7 Nov 1998 05:41:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ipswitch@apk.net) Received: from localhost by junior.apk.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id IAA04260; Sat, 7 Nov 1998 08:40:39 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: junior.apk.net: ipswitch owned process doing -bs Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1998 08:40:39 -0500 (EST) From: Ipswitch To: Rick Hamell cc: Morris Allen , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: your mail In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 6 Nov 1998, Rick Hamell wrote: > I like Kingstons, they use the DEC driver, are fairly cheap > compared to the Intels, and seem (to me anyways) easier to setup then the > Intel cards. You can get SVEC, D-Link, and Hawking generic cards that use the DEC Tulip chipset. SMC used to use DEC, but they've switched to Realtek AFAIK. Some of the Linux guys are really into the DEC Tulip stuff. They've even tested various cards. But I was told that there is very little difference between them. It's evidently a very easy chipset for manufacturers to use and get right. :-) If there is a Kingston NIC that definitely uses the right chipset, it would be a very good choice. I've heard good things about them too. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message