From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon May 3 15: 9:44 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from uni4nn.gn.iaf.nl (osmium.gn.iaf.nl [193.67.144.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 90DF6151A8 for ; Mon, 3 May 1999 15:09:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wilko@yedi.iaf.nl) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by uni4nn.gn.iaf.nl (8.9.2/8.9.2) with UUCP id XAA07964; Mon, 3 May 1999 23:40:33 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from wilko@localhost) by yedi.iaf.nl (8.9.3/8.6.12) id WAA01206; Mon, 3 May 1999 22:15:17 +0200 (CEST) From: Wilko Bulte Message-Id: <199905032015.WAA01206@yedi.iaf.nl> Subject: Re: Decent network cards for 100Mbit? In-Reply-To: <372DEF0E.67B76176@softweyr.com> from Wes Peters at "May 3, 1999 12:46:38 pm" To: wes@softweyr.com (Wes Peters) Date: Mon, 3 May 1999 22:15:17 +0200 (CEST) Cc: shocking@prth.pgs.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Organisation: Private FreeBSD site - Arnhem, The Netherlands X-pgp-info: PGP public key at 'finger wilko@freefall.freebsd.org' X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL43 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG As Wes Peters wrote ... > Wilko Bulte wrote: > > > > As Stephen Hocking-Senior Programmer PGS Tensor Perth wrote ... > > > > > > Having discovered that the Realtek chipset is a flatulent sack of pus, I'm > > > wondering what results people have had with other PCI network cards, and what > > > order of preference they'd put them in. > > > > I'm quite happy with the 3Com Etherlink III aka 3C905. > > I've been able to get 3c905s to work OK in 2.2.x and 3.x, but you can't > buy them anymore. The 3c905B you can buy now doesn't seem to work in > any release. Much work has been going on on the xl driver recently > to make the 905B actually work, but I've just replaced my 905s and 905Bs. I got older ones, work fine with 3.1-stable and -current here. Never seen a 905B yet. Groeten / Cheers, | / o / / _ Arnhem, The Netherlands - Powered by FreeBSD - |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte WWW : http://www.tcja.nl http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message