From owner-freebsd-newbies Fri Dec 8 3:47:48 2000 From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 8 03:47:46 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from george.he.net (george.he.net [216.218.157.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 85E4C37B400 for ; Fri, 8 Dec 2000 03:47:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from corten8 (adsl-63-193-247-201.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.193.247.201]) by george.he.net (8.8.6/8.8.2) with ESMTP id DAA29330; Fri, 8 Dec 2000 03:47:23 -0800 Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2000 03:41:39 -0800 (PST) From: Bill Schoolcraft X-Sender: To: Doug Young Cc: Matt Twynam , Subject: Re: problems with networkcards In-Reply-To: <00a001c0604d$ab27e280$837e03cb@dougy> Message-ID: System-ID: SunOS 5.8 i86pc MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At Thu, 7 Dec 2000 it looks like Doug Young composed: dougy->Do yourself a favor & use one of the cards that is known to work dougy->consistently ..... eg 3-com 509 / SMC 8013 (ISA) or virtually any 3-com / dougy->SMC / Digital / Intel / Tulip (PCI). The mailing list archives are full of dougy->problem reports from people using other cards. dougy-> In doing some recent work with the (Intel) Solaris-8 OS, which is extremely fussy about NIC cards, I found this site and ordered 2 of the Intel PRO 10/100's @ $19.99 each. The arrived and worked like a charm. http://www.stirtz.com/inpro100pcie.html -- Bill Schoolcraft PO Box 210076 San Francisco, CA 94121 "UNIX, A Way of Life." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message