From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Feb 24 12: 1:14 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from peak.mountin.net (peak.mountin.net [207.227.119.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 40E0637C299 for ; Thu, 24 Feb 2000 12:01:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jeff-ml@mountin.net) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by peak.mountin.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) id OAA22780; Thu, 24 Feb 2000 14:01:09 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from jeff-ml@mountin.net) Received: from dial-95.max1.wa.cyberlynk.net(207.227.118.95) by peak.mountin.net via smap (V1.3) id sma022778; Thu Feb 24 14:00:41 2000 Message-Id: <3.0.3.32.20000224135943.00a175e0@207.227.119.2> X-Sender: jeff-ml@207.227.119.2 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.3 (32) Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2000 13:59:43 -0600 To: Jon Rust , stable@FreeBSD.ORG From: "Jeffrey J. Mountin" Subject: Re: good network card (xl0 packet dropping) In-Reply-To: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 11:05 AM 2/24/00 -0800, Jon Rust wrote: >This is why I won't use 10/100 Intel cards. I've had numerous >problems with them and my cisco cat 2924. They really don't seem to >like talking to another auto-negotiating device. I end up having to >manually set one side (or both) to get it to work. An unnecessary >pain in the arse if you ask me. It's been a while since I tried, so >maybe it was a driver issue and was fixed. For my money, the Kingston >kne100tx's work fine, and the lne100tx's from Linksys do as well. No >superlatives, they just work. Judging from the other responses and from my experience with 29xx and 19xx you seems be the odd man out. The Intel's worked with either FBSD or Win 9x/NT no problem. Betting on a diver issue. Jeff Mountin - jeff@mountin.net Systems/Network Administrator FreeBSD - the power to serve To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message