From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jan 26 8:44: 9 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from aaz.links.ru (aaz.links.ru [193.125.152.37]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5828D37B404 for ; Fri, 26 Jan 2001 08:43:50 -0800 (PST) Received: (from babolo@localhost) by aaz.links.ru (8.9.3/8.9.3) id TAA07260; Fri, 26 Jan 2001 19:43:11 +0300 (MSK) Message-Id: <200101261643.TAA07260@aaz.links.ru> Subject: Re: if_fxp driver info (which card then?) In-Reply-To: from "Mike Wade" at "Jan 26, 1 08:51:32 am" To: mwade@cdc.net (Mike Wade) Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 19:43:10 +0300 (MSK) Cc: grog@lemis.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG From: "Aleksandr A.Babaylov" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Mike Wade writes: > On Fri, 26 Jan 2001, Greg Lehey wrote: > > Performance isn't even the main thing. As I said earlier, it's plain > > bloody unreliable. Linux people avoid the EtherExpress because they > > think something is wrong with the card. They were surprised when I > > reported that it works without any problems under FreeBSD. Do we > > really want to change that? > Slightly off subject but with all the discussion about not Intel playing > nicely with the FreeBSD developers... I've always had the best > reliability, performance, and lower CPU usage with the Intel EtherExpress > Pro 10/100B cards in FreeBSD (and Solaris x86 for that matter). Are there > better cards out there that I should be looking at? 3C905 -- @BABOLO http://links.ru/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message