From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Nov 6 10:41:54 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mass.dis.org (mass.dis.org [216.240.45.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C162837B41B for ; Tue, 6 Nov 2001 10:41:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from mass.dis.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.dis.org (8.11.6/8.11.3) with ESMTP id fA6Iea201264; Tue, 6 Nov 2001 10:40:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.dis.org) Message-Id: <200111061840.fA6Iea201264@mass.dis.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: "Brandon D. Valentine" Cc: "Jeroen C. van Gelderen" , Marcel Prisi , stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What NIC to choose ? In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 06 Nov 2001 11:59:53 EST." <20011106114853.C42904-100000@turtle.looksharp.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 06 Nov 2001 10:40:36 -0800 From: Mike Smith 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 > Indeed that would be unfair. Here is one particular model that I have > found to suck. =) > > Ethernet controller: LiteOn LNE100TX (rev 32). ... > >My experience with the Linksys LNE100TX 4.1 (ADMtek chipset) > >has been nothing but positive, despite the fact that it is > >a tulip clone. Which were the exact types of cards that you > >had fail? > > Exactly the same card. You may have had positive experiences with 'em, > but I have seen too many keel over dead. Actually, those are two totally different cards; they just happen to have the same product name. The key difference is the MAC; LiteOn vs. ADMtek. -- ... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt] V I C T O R Y N O T V E N G E A N C E To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message