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Date:      Mon, 11 Mar 1996 12:12:51 +1030 (CST)
From:      Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
To:        dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu
Cc:        compland@ism.com.br, questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: PCI ethernet boards
Message-ID:  <199603110142.MAA17936@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960310152013.17587J-100000@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu> from "Doug White" at Mar 10, 96 03:21:02 pm

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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  

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