From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Sep 2 10: 2:56 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from msgbas1.cos.agilent.com (msgbas1x.cos.agilent.com [192.25.240.36]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7DF8837B405 for ; Sun, 2 Sep 2001 10:02:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from msgrel1.cos.agilent.com (msgrel1.cos.agilent.com [130.29.152.77]) by msgbas1.cos.agilent.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E0FE139D for ; Sun, 2 Sep 2001 11:02:50 -0600 (MDT) Received: from mina.soco.agilent.com (mina.soco.agilent.com [141.121.54.157]) by msgrel1.cos.agilent.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B3AC3E2 for ; Sun, 2 Sep 2001 11:02:49 -0600 (MDT) Received: from mina.soco.agilent.com (darrylo@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mina.soco.agilent.com (8.9.3 (PHNE_22672)/8.9.3 SMKit7.1.1_Agilent) with ESMTP id KAA07757 for ; Sun, 2 Sep 2001 10:02:49 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200109021702.KAA07757@mina.soco.agilent.com> To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Ethernet Card Recommendation... Reply-To: Darryl Okahata In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 01 Sep 2001 17:58:23 PDT." Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 1.6) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Date: Sun, 02 Sep 2001 10:02:48 -0700 From: Darryl Okahata Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Tenebrae wrote: > > One of the replies to my inquiry said that the Netgear network adapters do > > not work well with certain AMD-based motherboards. Considering that one of > > my future upgrades will be to build a multi-processor Athlon system, this > > caused me a bit of concern. > > Not sure about that... > I am using a Netgear FA310TX network card on my freeBSD 4.3-STABLE server > with an ASUS P5A Super Socket 7 motherboard (ALi chipset) and an AMD > K6-2/350 processor. I've been pretty happy with it. Only problems I've The Netgear card is definitely an issue with the ASUS A7M266 motherboard (AMD 760-based, single CPU however). Check out the alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.asus newsgroup for more info. -- Darryl Okahata darrylo@soco.agilent.com DISCLAIMER: this message is the author's personal opinion and does not constitute the support, opinion, or policy of Agilent Technologies, or of the little green men that have been following him all day. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message