Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1998 17:23:18 -0800 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Kevin Day <toasty@home.dragondata.com> Cc: brett@lariat.org (Brett Glass), hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Good, cheap 100BaseT Ethernet cards? Message-ID: <199812150123.RAA01360@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 13 Dec 1998 17:44:03 CST." <199812132344.RAA02348@home.dragondata.com>
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> > I'm looking for some good, cheap 100BaseT Ethernet cards which are > > supported by drivers included with FreeBSD. Unfortunately, the ones listed > > in the "Readme" are "name brands" -- and are going for $80-100 instead of > > the $20 that most people seem to be paying for Ethernet NICs for WinDoze. > > For example, the Netgear FA310TX is priced in the mid-$20's and comes from > > a reputable company, but I can't tell if it will work. > > > The NetGear FA310TX works great in 2.2.x systems, but will occasionally > panic in 3.0 with a page fault in kernel mode. This was a bug in the 'de' driver, which I seem to recall having been fixed. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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