Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2000 12:40:44 -0800 (PST) From: Doug Ambrisko <ambrisko@whistle.com> To: mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: no more broken dongles. :) Message-ID: <200012152040.MAA38676@whistle.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0012151452210.23803-100000@browning.pennasoft.com> from Chris BeHanna at "Dec 15, 2000 02:53:39 pm"
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Chris BeHanna writes: | On Fri, 15 Dec 2000, Kevin Oberman wrote: | | > > On Fri, 15 Dec 2000, Alfred Perlstein wrote: | > > | > > > [...Alfred likes USB ethernet instead of broken dongles...] | > > | > > With no slight intended to the USB guys, another alternative is | > > the Linksys Integrated 10/100 card, which has a big honking jack | > > molded onto it with status LEDs. No dongle. It set me back about | > > $60, including shipping. | > | > Xircom RealPort is the same. The older 16 bit cards work well. The | > Ethernet/Modem combo card is the also the only one I'm aware of that | > actually works with FreeBSD. | | The nice thing about the Linksys card is that it only consumes one | slot (the top slot), leaving the other accessible for another card. Unless the other card also has a large blob as well. BTW USB is slow for Ethernet but it more robust as Alfred said and lets you connect up a bunch of them. Just think a 127 node router out of a laptop! Yes slow but sometimes you just have to do things and no I haven't done it. Doug A. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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