From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Nov 7 8:20:33 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from ns17.u-build-it.net (ns17.u-build-it.net [66.33.65.140]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 38CA237B416 for ; Wed, 7 Nov 2001 08:20:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from h0002e3053cbe.ne.mediaone.net ([66.31.121.43] helo=beast) by ns17 with asmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 161TKh-0002zz-00 for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Wed, 07 Nov 2001 09:05:35 -0500 Reply-To: From: "Paul A. Howes" To: Subject: Re: What NIC to choose? Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2001 09:06:07 -0500 Organization: FairWare Message-ID: <001f01c16795$58c7ed50$0200a8c0@beast> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.2627 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Importance: Normal X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - ns17.u-build-it.net X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - freebsd.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [0 0] / [0 0] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - fair-ware.com Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I have been very happy with NetGear network cards and switches. In the US, the Best Buy chain of stores has a sale on NetGear equipment every six weeks or so. The cards (FA311) are usually $20, but I picked them up for $10, and they had a $5 mail-in rebate on top of that. I also bought one of their switches (FS108) which has eight ports and supports 100Mbps full-duplex connections, for $90. These cards work with the sis driver (miibus is a prerequisite) and function equally well on FreeBSD, Linux, and Windows. In fact, Windows XP now has built-in support for these cards, and does not need the drivers from the included floppy disk. -- Paul A. Howes To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message