Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2001 08:06:58 -0400 From: Gerald A.Speak <gaspeak@va.prestige.net> To: Jarrod Sayers <jarrod.sayers@unisa.edu.au>, "Paul A. Howes" <pahowes@fair-ware.com> Cc: <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Ethernet Card Recommendation... Message-ID: <20010902120700.68DF537B407@hub.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20010902105247.F8879-100000@sanctuary.magill.unisa.edu.au> References: <20010902105247.F8879-100000@sanctuary.magill.unisa.edu.au>
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On Saturday 01 September 2001 09:26 pm, Jarrod Sayers wrote: > On Sat, 1 Sep 2001, Paul A. Howes wrote: > > All- > > > > I plan to upgrade my home network shortly. I am currently using an > > 8-port, 10 Mbps 3Com hub and 3C509B Ethernet cards. What I have been > > looking at is the 8-port, Netgear FS108 10/100 switch ($70), and their > > FA311 10/100 network cards ($20/ea.) > > > > Although I have used their network cards on Windows machines very > > successfully, I would like to know if they are compatible with FreeBSD? For what it's worth I've been using several FA310tx (de0) for the past three years without any problems. I Recently upgraded to a MB with a 133Mhz FSB and the network card to a FA312 (sis0) I had nothing but problems until I switched back to the FA310tx. > > They are. We use a few here at work. The FA310's are detected as dc0 and > ive noticed that the FA311's are detected at sis0. > > device dc # DEC/Intel 21143 and various workalikes > device sis # Silicon Integrated Systems SiS 900/SiS > 7016 > > > looked through the LINT file, and saw that they were mentioned as > > supported, but I wonder what that level of support is? I know that the > > Intel cards are the "best supported" with the 3C9xx series being a close > > second, but they > > All of our servers have Intel EtherExpress 100b's, they are very nice > NIC's but more expensive ;) > > > tend to be more expensive than the Netgear cards. The fact that Netgear > > is really a business unit Bay Networking doesn't exactly hurt my > > feelings, either :-) > > > > Thanks! > > Jarrod Sayers > Information Technologist > School of Communication, Information and New Media > University of South Australia, Magill Campus. > Phone: +61 8 83024045 > Fax: +61 8 83024745 > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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