From owner-freebsd-hardware Mon Aug 9 19:31: 4 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from daedal.oneway.com (daedal.oneway.com [205.252.89.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 61F00150F2 for ; Mon, 9 Aug 1999 19:31:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jay@oneway.com) Received: from localhost (jay@localhost) by daedal.oneway.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id WAA25867; Mon, 9 Aug 1999 22:25:42 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from jay@oneway.com) Date: Mon, 9 Aug 1999 22:25:42 -0400 (EDT) From: Jay Kuri To: Kenneth W Cochran Cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Managed vs unmanaged NICs In-Reply-To: <199908092342.AA28622@world.std.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > I've heard that managed cards are wastes of money under > Unix-type OSes, but I don't remember why... Could someone fill > me in? :) > For examples, the Intel 100+ and the 3Com 905B are both > available as either "managed" or "unmanaged" cards. Well, I can't say much about managed vs. unmanaged in general, I can say that there are some problems I can only describe as 'wierd' with the intel managed cards. They only show up rarely, but on some hardware, the cards just lock up and don't send data anymore. Intel is aware of the problem and trying to figure it out... Most hardware works fine... but we have computers at my work that will work with the older unmanaged cards that won't work with the new ones. *shrug* beats me. Jay To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message