From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 31 0:26:53 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp1.mx.pitdc1.stargate.net (smtp1.mx.pitdc1.stargate.net [206.210.69.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E25B137B406 for ; Fri, 31 Aug 2001 00:26:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mav@wastegate.net) Received: (qmail 4819 invoked from network); 30 Aug 2001 22:26:34 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mother) (209.166.135.65) by smtp1.mx.pitdc1.stargate.net with SMTP; 30 Aug 2001 22:26:34 -0000 From: "Doug Reynolds" To: "Andrew C. Hornback" , "FreeBSD Mailing List" , "Gary Kline" Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 18:24:52 -0400 Reply-To: "Doug Reynolds" X-Mailer: PMMail 98 Professional (2.01.1600) For Windows 98 (4.10.2222) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: RE: NE2000 compat?? Message-Id: <20010831072644.E25B137B406@hub.freebsd.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 30 Aug 2001 00:56:24 -0400, Andrew C. Hornback wrote: >> -----Original Message----- >> From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Gary Kline >> Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2001 12:49 AM >> To: FreeBSD Mailing List >> Subject: NE2000 compat?? >> >> I'm looking at the following 3 NIC's. Are any of these NE2000 >> clones? I've had lots of luck with my LynkSys cards and it makes >> sense to stick with the card architecture that works. >> >> Intel PCI 10/100 LAN card...$49 >> 3Com PCI 10/100 LAN card...$49 >> SMC PCI 10/100 LAN card...$25 > > First of all, you can dismiss the 3Com out of hand immediately. Unless you >crave headaches, these aren't the ones you want to deal with. > > Second of all, find out what model the SMC is. If it's a 9432TX, it will >work very well with FreeBSD (if it doesn't, let me know and if we can't get >it working, I'll buy it). > > FreeBSD has very good support for Intel NICs, so they would be a good >solution too. I don't know- i've have good luck with the PCI 905TX's i had- and I got one for free (has boot rom too) and the two other ones were $25 on ebay --- doug reynolds | the maverick | mav@wastegate.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message