From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 11 10:38:57 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id KAA02235 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 11 Mar 1996 10:38:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu (riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.164]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA02208 for ; Mon, 11 Mar 1996 10:38:13 -0800 (PST) Received: (from dwhite@localhost) by riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id KAA25958; Mon, 11 Mar 1996 10:37:58 -0800 Date: Mon, 11 Mar 1996 10:37:58 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Michael Smith cc: compland@ism.com.br, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PCI ethernet boards In-Reply-To: <199603110142.MAA17936@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 11 Mar 1996, Michael Smith wrote: > Doug White stands accused of saying: > > > > On Fri, 8 Mar 1996, Helio Coelho Jr. - CompuLand Informatica wrote: > > >> Can someone suggest me some ethernet cards models that works with FreeBSD > >> and are good performers and uses BNC ? (PCI please !). > > > > Anything based on a DC21040 (?) is quite good. > BEWARE! The current crop of Compex cards (based on the DC21041) do NOT > fall into this category. Not only do they not work, they make some > machines unstable. Well, that's their problem :-) Besides, I have the dec chip wrong; it should be DC21140 and DC21141. (According to the Handbook at least) Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major