Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2001 20:27:06 -0400 From: "Andrew C. Hornback" <hornback@wireco.net> To: "Brooks Davis" <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> Cc: <hardware@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: NIC Message-ID: <003601c10032$3a02a060$0e00000a@tomcat> In-Reply-To: <20010628111114.E7843@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu>
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> -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG > [mailto:owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Brooks Davis > Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2001 2:11 PM > To: Andrew C. Hornback > Cc: hardware@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: NIC > > > On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 12:16:24PM -0400, Andrew C. Hornback wrote: > > If you're looking for a good PCI NIC that enjoys wonderful support in > > FreeBSD, I would recommend my favorite weapon of choice... the > SMC 9432TX. > > These cards can be had for little to nothing these days and > offer wonderful > > support (their driver in FreeBSD is tx, if that tells you anything). > > The autoneg function sucks on these cards. It's even a known problem > under Windows. I often have problems with the one in my docking station > when it's first powered up. Are you sure that we're even talking about the same NIC here? The 9432TX is a PCI card, not a PCMCIA card. From all of the ones that I've had (roughly 20), I've never had a problem. FreeBSD has always found the card and configured it properly on install. I have two of these cards in my high end workstation, two in my firewall and one in my other workstation. The rest were sold to various clients who have as of yet to report any problems at all. --- Andy To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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