Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2001 18:57:21 -0600 (CST) From: Chris Wilmes <cwilmes@creighton.edu> To: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What NIC to choose ? Message-ID: <Pine.HPX.4.05.10111061850040.6855-100000@bluejay.creighton.edu> In-Reply-To: <3BE6EB48.7020404@vangelderen.org>
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On Mon, 5 Nov 2001, Jeroen C. van Gelderen wrote: > Hi Marcel, > > Marcel Prisi wrote: > > > After having loads of trouble with Intel Etherexpress, Netgear, and others > > NIC, what card REALLY work on FreeBSD ? > > > I would definately recommend the Linksys LNE100TX revision 4.1 > cards. In my experience this is a very reliable DEC/Intel 21143 > clone based on the ADMtek AN985 chipset. And they are cheap, > around $20 at Sparco for instance. Never seen one fail. > I must agree with Jeroen. Here at Creighton U. we have installed the Linksys LNE100TX cards in all new machines for several years now (version 2 and version 4.1). This probably totals 1000 cards or so. I think we've had maybe 2 or 3 cards come back verifiably bad. This is a much better return ratio than the SMC cards with a DEC-21041-based chip that we had been installing before. Note that these were almost all Microsoft Windows-based installations. I can't vouch for the quality of the FreeBSD network drivers. Chris Wilmes To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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