From owner-freebsd-hardware Tue Jun 30 18:15:01 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA20085 for freebsd-hardware-outgoing; Tue, 30 Jun 1998 18:15:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (dingo.cdrom.com [204.216.28.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA19898; Tue, 30 Jun 1998 18:14:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA08988; Tue, 30 Jun 1998 17:58:36 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199807010058.RAA08988@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: Richard Goh cc: efinley@castlenet.com, Alfred Perlstein , "Timothy M. Hughes" , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: RealTek RTL 8129 PCI Fast Ethernet Card In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 01 Jul 1998 07:48:16 +0800." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 30 Jun 1998 17:58:36 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > Hi, > Thanks for the info. > So far so bad, now I have a $2.5k machine sitting pretty on its own and > cant even change the network card which is on the motherboard. Sounds like you wasted your money. Try spending another $50 on an Intel EtherExpress Pro 100+, which is a controller worth having in the first place. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message