Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2001 07:00:53 -0500 From: "Paul A. Howes" <pahowes@fair-ware.com> To: <stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: What NIC to choose ? Message-ID: <001001c166ba$af90fef0$0200a8c0@beast> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0111051255440.64922-100000@ren.sasknow.com>
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Marcel- Intel cards are the best supported in FreeBSD, but I found that in general, they are not worth the high price they usually command. Several months ago, I bought all NetGear equipment: The FS108 (100Mbps full/half-duplex 8-port switch) and several FA311 100Mbps full/half-duplex PCI network cards. These are happily humming away in all of my systems. Windows XP has built in drivers for this card, but earlier versions do not; use the supplied floppy in that instance. FreeBSD supports the FA311 with the sis driver, but you need miibus compiled into your kernel as well. The support is good enough that I'm using a pair of these cards in my Internet router/firewall machine. I found the cards on sale at Best Buy, here in the US. They're normally $19, but you can find them for $14 or even $9 if you follow the sales at Best Buy. The switch was $90. Good luck! -- Paul A. Howes To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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