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Date: Sat, 27 Jul 1996 17:42:59 -0400
From: dws <dws@intercom.com>
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Subject: FreeBSD has no support for ethernet cards
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We just got some Intel boxes at a great price for the office, and at the urging of a FreeBSD
developer, we put FreeBSD on one of the machines. However, I have put 3 ethernet cards in and
none of them have worked. I know this is a FreeBSD problem because I have seen discussions of
how one of the cards was not supported in the freebsd mailing list, or at least, many people were
not getting it to work.
The cards I have are an
Intel EtherExpress PRO/100 LAN Adapter PCI (no support)
Trendnet 16-bit TE-16 Xpress (NE-2000 compatible) (no support)
and a 3com Etherlink III 3C5098-TP rev. A
The last card works for a time frame, but it seems to not like the idea of having too much data
flowing out of the computer. If I ping flood a host, or open up a telnet/X-windows etc. session,
soon it will just stop transmitting. If I take it down with ifconfig, and up again, it starts
working again.
I've never had such troubles with my Linux machines (or MS Windows). I'm probably going to
format the FreeBSD and put Linux on top of it.
dws
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