From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 10 18:54:11 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id SAA14612 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 10 Mar 1996 18:54:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id SAA14045 for ; Sun, 10 Mar 1996 18:47:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id MAA17936; Mon, 11 Mar 1996 12:12:52 +1030 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199603110142.MAA17936@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: PCI ethernet boards To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu Date: Mon, 11 Mar 1996 12:12:51 +1030 (CST) Cc: compland@ism.com.br, questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Doug White" at Mar 10, 96 03:21:02 pm MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Doug White stands accused of saying: > > On Fri, 8 Mar 1996, Helio Coelho Jr. - CompuLand Informatica wrote: >> Can someone suggest me some ethernet cards models that works with FreeBSD >> and are good performers and uses BNC ? (PCI please !). > > Anything based on a DC21040 (?) is quite good. Accton sells cards with > this chip on them; a friend of mine has a combo card he picked up at a > swap meet. BEWARE! The current crop of Compex cards (based on the DC21041) do NOT fall into this category. Not only do they not work, they make some machines unstable. > Doug White | University of Oregon -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] Collector of old Unix hardware. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[