From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Nov 6 13:16:30 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from clyde.goodleaf.net (piscator.seanet.com [199.181.165.218]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2481137B41D for ; Tue, 6 Nov 2001 13:16:24 -0800 (PST) Received: by clyde.goodleaf.net (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 1FFAB5C7E; Tue, 6 Nov 2001 13:18:11 -0800 (PST) References: <200111061840.fA6Iea201264@mass.dis.org> In-Reply-To: <200111061840.fA6Iea201264@mass.dis.org> From: "J. Goodleaf" To: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What NIC to choose ? Date: Tue, 06 Nov 2001 21:18:11 GMT Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <20011106211811.1FFAB5C7E@clyde.goodleaf.net> 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 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