From owner-freebsd-hardware Sun Dec 13 15:44:23 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA26576 for freebsd-hardware-outgoing; Sun, 13 Dec 1998 15:44:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from home.dragondata.com (home.dragondata.com [204.137.237.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA26570 for ; Sun, 13 Dec 1998 15:44:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from toasty@home.dragondata.com) Received: (from toasty@localhost) by home.dragondata.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) id RAA02348; Sun, 13 Dec 1998 17:44:04 -0600 (CST) From: Kevin Day Message-Id: <199812132344.RAA02348@home.dragondata.com> Subject: Re: Good, cheap 100BaseT Ethernet cards? In-Reply-To: <4.1.19981213163548.06cd3450@mail.lariat.org> from Brett Glass at "Dec 13, 1998 4:40:44 pm" To: brett@lariat.org (Brett Glass) Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1998 17:44:03 -0600 (CST) Cc: hardware@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL43 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > I'm looking for some good, cheap 100BaseT Ethernet cards which are > supported by drivers included with FreeBSD. Unfortunately, the ones listed > in the "Readme" are "name brands" -- and are going for $80-100 instead of > the $20 that most people seem to be paying for Ethernet NICs for WinDoze. > For example, the Netgear FA310TX is priced in the mid-$20's and comes from > a reputable company, but I can't tell if it will work. The NetGear FA310TX works great in 2.2.x systems, but will occasionally panic in 3.0 with a page fault in kernel mode. I have about 20 of these cards that work great in 2.2 though. Kevin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message