Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2018 15:01:34 -0600 From: Adam Vande More <amvandemore@gmail.com> To: "Ronald F. Guilmette" <rfg@tristatelogic.com> Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org, freebsd-net <freebsd-net@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Recommendations for cheap PCI-E network adapter ? Message-ID: <CA%2BtpaK3aeDzY4_c7qNmF9CgoOQRhg2Q_OxMjo8P-Nup3iL4yOw@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <14197.1514925499@segfault.tristatelogic.com> References: <14197.1514925499@segfault.tristatelogic.com>
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On Tue, Jan 2, 2018 at 2:38 PM, Ronald F. Guilmette <rfg@tristatelogic.com> wrote: > > I need to buy a PCI-E ethernet card. It won't really matter if it > is 10/100/1000 or just 10/100 but it has to work with FreeBSD at a > minimum. It would be Nice if it was also supported by Linux and > Windoze7, but that isn't really critical. > > I'm a serious cheapskate, so I'd like to spend as little as possible. > I don't need anything super-deluxe. Whatever is cheapest will be fine, > even if the performance is only so-so. > > Recommendations would be appreciated. > > > P.S. The small amount of research I just now did suggests that Realtek > based cards should be avoided, but one reviewer said that the Rosewill > RC-411v3 works just fine on Ubuntu, so I'm not sure what to think about > Realtek-based cards now. The price is right (for me) on the Rosewill > RC-411v3, but various online threads (relating to Realtek chips) give > me pause... > > https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/60033/ > > https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/55861/ > > I really can't see blowing fifty bucks on a simple, low-end ethernet card, > but everything inexpensive seems to be Realtek-based. :-( > > You can get an new but older Intel PCI-E from the big retailer in the sky for ~$20USD. -- Adam
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