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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Problems: EISA+1542; NE2000(PCI); onboard MACH-64
Date: 6 Jan 1997 23:50:13 GMT
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Pascal.Gienger@uni-konstanz.de (Pascal Gienger) wrote:

> I would go (for 10Mbit/sec) with some sort of SMC 8216 card on ISA.

Or even a SMC8013.  Probably one of the best ISA ethernet cards that
ever has been built.

The Lance (Am7990PC) cards and driver also seem to be good.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
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