Date: Tue, 06 Nov 2001 21:18:11 GMT From: "J. Goodleaf" <john@goodleaf.net> To: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What NIC to choose ? Message-ID: <20011106211811.1FFAB5C7E@clyde.goodleaf.net> In-Reply-To: <200111061840.fA6Iea201264@mass.dis.org> References: <200111061840.fA6Iea201264@mass.dis.org>
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What are people's feelings about the 3Com 509 and related NICs? I recall a while back that people were generally unhappy with the 3Com driver, etc. Anyone enjoying 3Com cards under 4.4-stable? -John Mike Smith writes: >> 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 ===================== J. Goodleaf john@goodleaf.net goodleaj@immunex.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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