Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 08:35:41 -0400 From: Mikel <mikel@ocsny.com> To: Phiber <Phiber@hack3r.com> Cc: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What NIC card to get? Message-ID: <39A1221D.2DCE2239@ocsny.com> References: <NEBBJAIJCLOJDJAJCKLCGEIBCBAA.Phiber@hack3r.com>
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This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------AE1C1D782E0A8939F91A159A Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit the smc tx1211 (rl) works well but I don't thiunk many of the others do. you can get them through channel for something like $20... Phiber wrote: > ok, well, I came across an SMC 10/100 EZNET PCI NIC card. It says it works > with linux and is SCO compatible. I plugged it in and no go. Can someone > please explain to me how I would set this thing up to get me on the net with > Free BSD 4? > > Thanks to anyone reading this > > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG > [mailto:owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Matt Ayres > Sent: Sunday, August 20, 2000 2:23 PM > To: Phiber > Cc: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: What NIC card to get? > > Your best bet is to get an Intel EtherExpress/Pro 100(B/+) (fxp) or 3Com > 3c905B (xl). These are some high quality nic's and very supported. If you > are on a budget you might want to look at a SMC Epic (tx). > > Thanks, > Matt Ayres > > On Sun, 20 Aug 2000, Phiber wrote: > > > > > Hi, I recently put freeBSD on an old p166 with 16 megs of ram. I am on a > > cable modem, and have a home network with two win 98 machines that run > > through the LinkSys Router. I want to add my BSD box, but I don't know > what > > NIC card to get. Will someone give me some suggestions? > > > > > > Thanks to all who read this > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message -- Cheers, Mikel +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~+ | Optimized Computer Solutions, Inc http://www.ocsny.com | 39 W14th Street, Suite 203 212 727 2238 x132 | New York, NY 10011 +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~+ --------------AE1C1D782E0A8939F91A159A Content-Type: text/x-vcard; charset=us-ascii; name="mikel.vcf" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Description: Card for Mikel Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="mikel.vcf" begin:vcard n:King;Mikel tel;fax:2124638402 tel;home:http://www.upan.org tel;work:2127272100 x-mozilla-html:TRUE org:Optimized Computer Solutions version:2.1 email;internet:mikel@ocsny.com title:Director of Network Operations & Technology adr;quoted-printable:;;39 W14th St.=0D=0ASte 203;New York;NY;10011;US note;quoted-printable:fBSD, PHP, MySql and OCS Rule!!!=0D=0A=0D=0AGoal is to be MS free by the end of 2k. x-mozilla-cpt:;7312 fn:Mikel King end:vcard --------------AE1C1D782E0A8939F91A159A-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
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