Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2008 13:38:13 +0000 From: "Alphons \"Fonz\" van Werven" <a.j.werven@student.utwente.nl> To: Bruce Evans <brde@optusnet.com.au> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Realtek 8111B LAN Chipset Message-ID: <47934EC5.4010509@student.utwente.nl> In-Reply-To: <20080120160405.E14916@delplex.bde.org> References: <47928642.2090707@gmail.com> <20080120160405.E14916@delplex.bde.org>
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Bruce Evans wrote: > I also want a cheap PCI/e NIC that works well with drivers back to > FreeBSD-4 like my plain PCI bge and em NICs do. I doubt that any > popular motherboard will have anything better than a cheap PCI/e NIC. Finding a modern main board of which the builtin NIC works with 4.X seems like a tall order to me, perhaps it would be easier to install a seperate NIC. With some luck you might be able to pick up a decent used NIC from a discarded Pentium(2) or something. I've been using a 3Com 3c509 combo card for years. In 3.X the driver was still buggy, but it worked great with 4.X, particularly the later ones, say, 4.5 onwards. Alphons -- VISTA - Viruses Intruders Spyware Trojans Adware
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