From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 22 22:38:06 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1CDBE16A4DF for ; Tue, 22 Aug 2006 22:38:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lists@hausro.de) Received: from mail3.netbeat.de (mail3.netbeat.de [83.243.58.162]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 55F2643D45 for ; Tue, 22 Aug 2006 22:38:05 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from lists@hausro.de) Received: (qmail 608 invoked from network); 22 Aug 2006 22:38:08 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO Rage) (86.104.204.91) by mail3.netbeat.de with SMTP; 22 Aug 2006 22:38:08 -0000 Message-ID: <00a001c6c63b$a1579700$857ba8c0@Rage> From: "ANdrei" To: "Daniel A." References: <44EB4839.8050304@dienub.org> <44EB527F.5080406@rogers.com> <44EB54D5.3060503@dienub.org> Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2006 01:38:03 +0300 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=response Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2869 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2962 Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Good network card? X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2006 22:38:06 -0000 I'd suggest 3com ethernet cards. Here in Romania I could find them used (but working) for 3euros (100Mbps), and they did the job for years after that... Even if you pay 20euros for new ones, they're worth it. Tulip clones work pretty well in my opinion, and also Davicom chipsets (last ones I found for 6euros for 100Mbps, new in Germany, work very well). I have built a server myself now and went for the 3Com, am very happy with it (older model, 905 or smtg, seen by the xl driver, and though second hand works very well). I can also recomment Intel on the expensive side, and I've had good experiences with Realtek RTL8139B also, back when I was using smtg like that, never had any problems with them (8139C or the 10Mbps 8029 were horrible, though). RTL8139 is a cheap and not very realiable solution, but if you're lucky and find a good brand, they can do the job (I had some pretty bad ones from Genius, though, keep off of them). I'm not an expert in kernel trap and watchdog timeouts, but as it sounds to me I'd also check my hard drives or controller... had some nasty problems myself with those AND a faulty memory stick, but even after taking the faulty mem out, th hard drives kept getting me weird errors and eventually rebooting after some kernel trap (flew by quickly, seemed like "kernel trap 11 - that's bad!" though, so not 12). hope this helps a bit, ANdrei http://students.oamk.fi/~t6ruan00/ ------ Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level then beat you with experience... ----- Original Message ----- From: "Daniel A." To: "Mike Jakubik" Cc: Sent: Tuesday, August 22, 2006 10:02 PM Subject: Re: Good network card? > Mike Jakubik wrote: >> Daniel A. wrote: >>> Considering that I am quite poor - What PCI ethernet cards should I buy >>> for my server? And could you suggest a cheap motherboard which isn't bad >>> too? >> >> Cheap and good rarely go together. If you want a good network card, i >> recommend an Intel Pro 100 or 1000. >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hardware >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to >> "freebsd-hardware-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > Well, there have been cases of cheap hardware being reliable. As far as > I'm concerned, Seagate makes some serious bang for the buck (In the case > of hard drives, of course), and they are in the lower price range of > drives over here in Denmark. > > I was wondering if there was any analogy in the world of network cards. > But Intel Pro sounds like something I'd like to have. > > Thanks for your answer :) > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hardware > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-hardware-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >