From owner-freebsd-mobile Tue Apr 11 5: 6: 6 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from blackhelicopters.org (geburah.blackhelicopters.org [209.69.178.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EBEB537B9AB for ; Tue, 11 Apr 2000 05:06:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org) Received: (from mwlucas@localhost) by blackhelicopters.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id IAA05320; Tue, 11 Apr 2000 08:05:32 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mwlucas) From: Michael Lucas Message-Id: <200004111205.IAA05320@blackhelicopters.org> Subject: Re: 5.0-current PC Card NIC In-Reply-To: <200004102220.QAA25987@harmony.village.org> from Warner Losh at "Apr 10, 2000 4:20:19 pm" To: imp@village.org (Warner Losh) Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 08:05:31 -0400 (EDT) Cc: mobile@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL43 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > : I understand that the NE2000 cards are the safest to use on -current. > : ("Safest" in this context meaning, "the driver is least likely to meet > : the Danish Axes.") Is this correct? > > NO. That's not right. I've had no problems with ep, sn or ed > devices. *NONE* of the pccards that are supported in 4.0 will be > dropped in 5.0. I own two laptop NICs right now: they show up on my 3-stable system as zp0 and xe0. I don't particularly mind buying another card, but you certainly understand my concern. ;) Anyway, the concensus seems to be the Netgear NIC. Off to the online catalog I go. Thanks to everyone! ==ml To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message