Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1998 17:08:40 -0500 (EST) From: Rick Aliwalas <rra@cms.cendant.com> To: "Sr. Ruiz" <dono@async.org> Cc: Chris <chrisj@outcast.media-net.net>, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: EISA ethernet card Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.05.9811161704500.15371-100000@jakobako.oakview.cuc.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.4.05.9811161538310.25474-100000@azazel.async.org>
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On Mon, 16 Nov 1998, Sr. Ruiz wrote: > On Mon, 16 Nov 1998, Chris wrote: > >hello all, > >i was wondering if anyone had some thoughts as to a good low price EISA > >ethernet card that would work well with 2.2-stable. this is for an old > >dell 4560/XE. any input would be great > > 3Com 3c509's are okay. I bought about 40 of them (used) for $8/ea. > (10baseT only -- can't remember exactly where I bought them from). I've > had no problems, and they seem to work perfectly so far. Then there's the > good 'ol NE2000s... those two are the only low-priced ISA card I can think > of, that is widely supported/etc. We use 3c509 all over the place on all different types of PC's. They were going to get thrown out as PCI based PC's were coming in. We've had no problems either - one of the machines has 681 days of uptime! > > If you can't find any place that sells them for $10/ea or so, let me > know, and I will attempt to find where I purchased from (dig through my > box full of receipts). > > Hope this helps. Good luck. > > -a > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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