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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!platinum.sge.net!como.dpie.gov.au!news.gan.net.au!act.news.telstra.net!vic.news.telstra.net!news.mira.net.au!pumpkin.pangea.ca!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.nacamar.de!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: 3com ethernet and FreeBSD 2.1.7 & 2.2.2 Date: 29 Jun 1997 17:14:32 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 17 Message-ID: <5p655o$t53@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <33b2bd72.1192804@news> <ECG1w5.3tx@nonexistent.com> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:43725 le@put.com (Louis Epstein) wrote: > : The only PCI cards I can consistantly find in > : stores are the above mentioned 3com cards and numerous Intel > : etherexpress cards. Recomendations? > > The HARDWARE.TXT for 2.2.2 DOES mention the 3c9xx. They are, although the Inter Etherexpress Pro/100B would be better to recommend. 3Com suffers from a rather crappy (chip) design. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)