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Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 14:24:41 -0500
Subject: Re: NIC selection advice
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on 1/17/02 2:06 PM, David Kelly at dkelly@hiwaay.net wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 09:31:21AM -0600, Eric Six wrote:
>> 
>> I have always had *good* luck with the dec2114xx chip sets. I have
> 
> I notice both de(4) and dc(4) are said to support the Intel/DEC 21143.
> So if one has one of these chips and is unhappy one might try the other
> driver.
> 
> Have never really stressed a FreeBSD machine with continuous heavy load
> the way David Greenman did but have always been happy with his choice of
> ethernet card based on the Intel 8225[789]. Common enough that pulls are
> aften found at flea markets and misc. used computer parts sources such
> as http://www.compgeeks.com/products.asp?cat=NET.
> 
> A while back they had manufactured-for-Gateway Intel 10/100's for $8.
> Currently shows a "Management Adapter" for $20. Or possibly back to the
> DEC chipset a Kingston KNE100TX for $8.

I did notice that. Again, my problem there is that the dc(4) driver doesn't
show up in the list of inactive drivers in user.config via the
stand/sysintall utility. I don't know enough to figure how to get it used as
the driver. I'm still running the GENERIC kernel while I get all this
buttoned down so it's in there somewhere according to the docs.

Thanks Much!!


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