From owner-freebsd-hardware Fri Jun 19 10:16:49 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA23717 for freebsd-hardware-outgoing; Fri, 19 Jun 1998 10:16:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from antioche.lip6.fr (antioche.lip6.fr [132.227.61.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA23656 for ; Fri, 19 Jun 1998 10:16:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr) Received: from antifer.ipv6.lip6.fr (antifer.ipv6.lip6.fr [132.227.61.34]) by antioche.lip6.fr (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id TAA00899; Fri, 19 Jun 1998 19:11:13 +0200 (MEST) Received: (bouyer@localhost) by antifer.ipv6.lip6.fr (8.8.8/8.6.4) id TAA08792; Fri, 19 Jun 1998 19:11:13 +0200 (MEST) Message-ID: <19980619191113.10952@antioche.lip6.fr> Date: Fri, 19 Jun 1998 19:11:13 +0200 From: Manuel Bouyer To: "Mr G.D. Tyson" Cc: port-i386@NetBSD.ORG, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: O/S Support for large [512Mb] PC systems References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.76e In-Reply-To: ; from Mr G.D. Tyson on Fri, Jun 19, 1998 at 11:15:56AM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Jun 19, Mr G.D. Tyson wrote > [...] > ultra controller. We would probably use an Intel Express 10/100 Ethernet > adaptor (or two) as the network connection. > Beware, I'm not sure all Intel's boards are supported under NetBSD yet. I would recommend boards based on the DEC 21{0,1}14{0,1} or Texas Intruments' ThunderLAN chip (this last one is really fast, for a small amount of CPU use. It seems the de driver ises a bit more CPU). There are a lot of board based on DEC's chips. For TI's chip the only one I know are build by Compaq (ick) and are codenamed Netelligent. I have a few here (single and dual 10/100 ports) and I'm very happy with them. -- Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI. Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message