Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1998 11:14:19 -0700 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: Bruce Albrecht <bruce@zuhause.mn.org>, Mark turpin <mturpin@shadow.spel.com> Cc: hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Good, cheap 100BaseT Ethernet cards? Message-ID: <4.1.19981224111327.05a4d230@127.0.0.1> In-Reply-To: <13954.22306.733363.415028@zuhause.zuhause.mn.org> References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.981213215507.12940B-100000@shadow.spel.com> <4.1.19981213163548.06cd3450@mail.lariat.org> <Pine.BSF.3.96.981213215507.12940B-100000@shadow.spel.com>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
The best price I have found on the Intel 10/100 cards is BUY.COM in the low $40's. --Brett At 09:00 AM 12/24/98 -0600, Bruce Albrecht wrote: >Mark turpin writes: > > On Sun, 13 Dec 1998, Brett Glass wrote: > > > > > I'm looking for some good, cheap 100BaseT Ethernet cards which are > > > supported by drivers included with FreeBSD. Unfortunately, the ones listed > > > in the "Readme" are "name brands" -- and are going for $80-100 instead of > > > the $20 that most people seem to be paying for Ethernet NICs for WinDoze. > > > For example, the Netgear FA310TX is priced in the mid-$20's and comes from > > > a reputable company, but I can't tell if it will work. > > > > > RealTek 8139 based card. They are 10/100Mbps PCI, work with > > FreeBSD (rl0 driver), and you can get them for $15-$20. I have about > > 20 of them. > >I have a $20 RealTek 8139 card, and while it's rock solid and gives >reasonable transfer rates at 10 Mbps, it's only capable of doing about >50 Mbps sustained transfers in 100 Mbps mode and eats up 25% of a 200 >MHz PPro's CPU. And that was before Bill Paul made it copy buffers >nearly all the time because of alignment problems I reported with PPP >traffic. If I find an Intel EtherExpress 100 for < $40, I'm going to >replace the RealTek in a shot. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?4.1.19981224111327.05a4d230>