From owner-freebsd-mobile Fri Dec 15 12:45:44 2000 From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 15 12:45:42 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from alpo.whistle.com (s206m1.whistle.com [207.76.206.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1AAC837B404 for ; Fri, 15 Dec 2000 12:45:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from whistle.com (crab.whistle.com [207.76.205.112]) by alpo.whistle.com (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id MAA18658 for ; Fri, 15 Dec 2000 12:41:45 -0800 (PST) Received: (from ambrisko@localhost) by whistle.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id MAA38676 for mobile@FreeBSD.ORG; Fri, 15 Dec 2000 12:40:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ambrisko) From: Doug Ambrisko Message-Id: <200012152040.MAA38676@whistle.com> Subject: Re: no more broken dongles. :) In-Reply-To: from Chris BeHanna at "Dec 15, 2000 02:53:39 pm" To: mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2000 12:40:44 -0800 (PST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL61 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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