Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2000 21:37:24 -0400 From: "Andrew C. Hornback" <hornback@wireco.net> To: "'Mike Silbersack'" <silby@silby.com> Cc: <freebsd-net@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: What NIC card to get? Message-ID: <00ec01c00d6b$dad9ea30$d4776bce@challenger> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0008230828560.13559-100000@achilles.silby.com>
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> -----Original Message----- > From: Mike Silbersack [mailto:silby@silby.com] > Sent: Wednesday, August 23, 2000 9:31 AM > To: Andrew C. Hornback > Cc: 'Wes Peters'; freebsd-net@freebsd.org > Subject: RE: What NIC card to get? > > I'd really feel bad telling people to buy ISA cards, > personally. They're > a lot more trouble that they're worth. (And most new boards > don't have > ISA slots anyway.) > > Mike "Silby" Silbersack > > On Wed, 23 Aug 2000, Andrew C. Hornback wrote: > > > Point of reference: > > > > I'd never paid more than $20 for a NIC, and don't plan > to when I can get > > the SMC 10/100 cards for generally half that. The 8216s > are generally > > anywhere from $2-$8. Well, the reason I threw that in there was for a point of reference. The 8216s that I've got were used, and are in perfect working order. They may be more trouble than they're worth to some but when you have machines that don't have PCI slots (yes, I've still got a few of those in service over here), that's the best you can do. I really don't wanna tangle with EISA NICs (which are rare as can be, YMMV)... nor do I wanna seek out VLB NICs (again, QUITE rare)... --- Andy To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
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