From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Nov 6 8: 4:13 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from gsaix2.cc.GaSoU.EDU (gsaix2.cc.GaSoU.edu [141.165.1.57]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD33737B405 for ; Tue, 6 Nov 2001 08:04:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (gsi22419@localhost) by gsaix2.cc.GaSoU.EDU (8.9.2/8.9.2) with SMTP id LAA29038; Tue, 6 Nov 2001 11:03:28 -0500 Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2001 11:03:21 -0500 (EST) From: Scott Dodson To: "David W. Chapman Jr." Cc: Mike Loiterman , "'Marcel Prisi'" , stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What NIC to choose ? In-Reply-To: <20011105235109.A24306@leviathan.inethouston.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 I recently setup a 595 if I remember properly. FreeBSD required me to setup the media type using 3com's dos based configuration tool. With the default settings of automatic media type detection it would not run under 4.4. I think this card was discontinued long ago anyway. -- scott On Mon, 5 Nov 2001, David W. Chapman Jr. wrote: > On Mon, Nov 05, 2001 at 02:18:29PM -0600, Mike Loiterman wrote: > > I would go with a 3com 3c509 if can find one. They are cheap and work > > with Windows, BSD, or Linux. You never know where you'll end up! > > > > > didn't the 590's have a lot of problems especially with FreeBSD or am > I just remembering from 3.x > -- > David W. Chapman Jr. > dwcjr@inethouston.net Raintree Network Services, Inc. > dwcjr@freebsd.org FreeBSD Committer > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message