From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 8 11:00:22 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id LAA23325 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 8 Jan 1997 11:00:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from capella.grayphics.com (root@capella.grayphics.com [207.71.216.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id LAA23320 for ; Wed, 8 Jan 1997 11:00:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (nick@localhost) by capella.grayphics.com (8.8.3/8.8.3) with SMTP id LAA06384; Wed, 8 Jan 1997 11:00:03 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 8 Jan 1997 11:00:01 -0800 (PST) From: Nick Esborn To: Kory Hamzeh cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Which PCI enet card In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I have been very fond of the Digital Fast Etherworks card. It's pricey at around $150, but it does 10 and 100 very well. Its performance always surprises me, and it seems to use very little CPU. Installation is easy, although if you are on 10baseT you need to make sure that you set it to run at 10 Mbits/sec. Nick Grayphics http://www.grayphics.com/ On Wed, 8 Jan 1997, Kory Hamzeh wrote: > > Hi Everyone, > > I'm putting together a high end freebsd system. The MB is a AMI Merlin DP > Pentium Pro 200MHZ PCI system. I wanted to use the 3COM 3c590 PCI Enet > adaptor, but apparently, it is out of production and has been replaced > with the 3c900??? Anyway, the company that sold me the PC stuck a 3c900 > in it and told me it has compatible with the 3c590. freebsd 2.1.5 > certainly doesn't think so since it cant even find it!! > > What other PCI Enet cards work well with the 2.1.5 RELEASE of freebsd? I > need to get something working today! > > Thanks, > Kory > >