From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 28 05:40:03 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: net@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 30F89106564A for ; Tue, 28 Feb 2012 05:40:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mi+thun@aldan.algebra.com) Received: from vms173015pub.verizon.net (vms173015pub.verizon.net [206.46.173.15]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0FF498FC1F for ; Tue, 28 Feb 2012 05:40:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.1.8] ([unknown] [96.242.210.31]) by vms173015.mailsrvcs.net (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 7u2-7.02 32bit (built Apr 16 2009)) with ESMTPA id <0M0300CC969XNQY0@vms173015.mailsrvcs.net> for net@FreeBSD.org; Mon, 27 Feb 2012 22:39:33 -0600 (CST) Message-id: <4F4C5A85.3030801@aldan.algebra.com> Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2012 23:39:33 -0500 From: "Mikhail T." User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:6.0.2) Gecko/20110926 Thunderbird/6.0.2 MIME-version: 1.0 To: net@FreeBSD.org Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Mailman-Approved-At: Tue, 28 Feb 2012 05:51:01 +0000 Cc: Subject: Seeking recommendation on good USB network card X-BeenThere: freebsd-net@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Networking and TCP/IP with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2012 05:40:03 -0000 Hello! The on-motherboard Ethernet "card" in one of my computers stopped working suddenly... I'm too far away and don't want the local users to open up the machine to insert anything. Thus, I'd like to use an external USB nic. The OS is FreeBSD-8.2-stable/i386. Any recommendations? It can be a wired (preferred) or even a WiFI device. Thanks a lot! Yours, -mi