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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!gatech!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!zib-berlin.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: help with building a machine Date: 19 Jan 1996 22:57:12 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 30 Message-ID: <4dp7k8$4iv@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4dm41u$h57@comet.magicnet.net> 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 0.9.3 dpb@magicnet.net (Dan Benjamin) writes: > I'm planing on using: > > P75 OPTI PCI motherboard > Adaptec 2940 SCSI controller > Conner 1.08G SCSI Hard drive > NEC Quad External SCSI CD-ROM > Diamond Stealth SE 1 Meg PCI Video Card > USR 28.8 In. Fax/Mdm > 3Com 3c509 or 3c503 ethernet card > > Anyone see any problems with any of these components??? Diamond has a habit of radically changing their hardware without changing the names. So judging from a name is a bit dangerous... I don't really recommend a 3c503 for a PCI machine, and the 3c509 driver might or might not work for you. If you are interested in a stable, good-performing driver, get a DEC21040-based Ethernet card. (Internal modems are a matter of taste. Most people don't like to power-cycle their machines just to reset a hanging modem. :) -- 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. ;-)