Date: Tue, 26 Mar 1996 17:07:47 -0800 From: Jim Shankland <jas@flyingfox.COM> To: hardware@freebsd.org Subject: motherboard and Ethernet card recommendations Message-ID: <199603270107.RAA19327@saguaro.flyingfox.com>
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I hope this is not so frequently asked a question that I'm being annoying, but I would appreciate any words of wisdom regarding Pentium motherboard and Ethernet card selection for a FreeBSD machine. The criteria for the motherboard are: * rock solid stable; * no buggy chipsets or goofy cache coherency problems; * no weird hardware limitations. The criteria for the Ethernet card are: * rock solid stable; * excellent performance (should be able to keep up with basically a full-speed Ethernet packet stream); * excellent, very stable FreeBSD device driver. A secondary goal is to have a non-brain-damaged BIOS that can be configured so that the machine will boot without a keyboard, and ideally without a graphics card. Note that cost is *not* a primary concern, though of course I'm not intent on spending any money I don't need to. I'd be happy to take responses by email, and summarize to the list, if that's appropriate. Thanks in advance. Jim Shankland Flying Fox Computer Systems, Inc.home | help
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