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From: us@microtronic.de (Ulf Schmidt)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: 100 BT ethernet card. Which one is better?
Date: Wed, 09 Oct 96 19:47:08 GMT
Organization: MicroTronic GmbH
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In article <53c9du$2tg@overload.lbl.gov>, jin@gracie.lbl.gov (Jin Guojun[ITG]) wrote:
>It seems that there were some disscussion about 3COM 100 BaseT ethercard
>3C590 sometimes ago. Is this a better 100 BaseT ethernet card?
>Would some one please advice on the 100 BaseT ethercards?
>Within Intel EtherExpress Pro/100B, Novell NE2000, SMC EtherPower 10/100
>(Model 9332), and 3C590, which one is easy to use and has less problems?
Hi,
we using the SMC EtherPower 10/100 in several machines here, and are 
completely satisfied. However, we are currently running them in 10 Mbit mode 
and have not yet tried the 100 Mbit mode. The card is easy to install into the 
FreeBSD system since it recognized during the installing boot.

Regards, Ulf