Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2001 13:45:58 -0500 (EST) From: "Brandon D. Valentine" <bandix@looksharp.net> To: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> Cc: "Jeroen C. van Gelderen" <jeroen@vangelderen.org>, Marcel Prisi <marcel-lists@virtua.ch>, <stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: What NIC to choose ? Message-ID: <20011106134448.T44147-100000@turtle.looksharp.net> In-Reply-To: <200111061840.fA6Iea201264@mass.dis.org>
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On Tue, 6 Nov 2001, Mike Smith wrote: >> 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. Thanks for the correction, Mike. With so many rebadged NICs running around it's getting difficult to keep track of who's parts are where. -- "Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today. There might be a law against it by that time." -- /usr/games/fortune, 07/30/2001 Brandon D. Valentine <bandix at looksharp.net> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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