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Subject: Re: netgear nic
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David Bear asked on Wednesday Dec 31, 2003:


> the NIC selection at the local store was terrible. I ended up buying a
> netgear FA311.  I cannot tell what chipset this has..  It is the
> numbers VS318AG in it..
>
> anyone used a netgear nic with fbsd 4.9?
>


I've got 3 of these in one box and 1 in another. There were some
problems when using 3 cards, probably IRQ related. But the single card
has worked fine.

They use the sis(4) driver, but you should see this when you boot from
the install CD.