Date: Mon, 09 Jun 2003 12:24:24 -0400 (EDT) From: "J. Seth Henry" <jshamlet@comcast.net> To: Scott Mitchell <scott+freebsd@fishballoon.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Reliable USB NIC? Message-ID: <20030609121942.H1730@alexandria.gambrl01.md.comcast.net>
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I have had very good luck with the Linksys USB100TX adapters. I have four of them supporting small X terminals, and they have turned out to be more reliable than the terminals (they crash for reasons unrelated to their network connections). They also have decent performance for a USB 1.x device. If your system has support for USB 2.0, Linksys does make a USB 2.0 version of the adapter, but I don't have any experience with them. Regards, Seth Henry >I know it sounds like an oxymoron, but I'm looking for a reliable USB NIC >that's supported by FreeBSD 4.8 or -STABLE. It's going to be attached to >my cable modem (currently 512kbps down, 128kbps up, transferring a few >hundred MB daily) so speed is not really relevant. What I do need is >something that will stay up for months -- essentially the time between >kernel upgrades -- without needing any attention from me. Sadly it has >to be USB, since the machine it's going in only has room for 1 PCI card, >and that's occupied by the wireless adapter. > >Hmm, I guess 'not too expensive' and 'available in the UK' should be on >that list too :-) > >Does such a beast exist? > >Cheers, > > Scott
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