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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!cancer.vividnet.com!hunter.premier.net!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news-in.communique.net!tetsuo.communique.net!usenet From: Jim King <jim@ase.telerate.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: PCI ethernet adapters? Date: Fri, 18 Oct 1996 17:00:36 -0500 Organization: Communique Inc., New Orleans Lines: 15 Message-ID: <3267FE04.4C51@ase.telerate.com> References: <326590e8.1099382@news.together.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: jimk.ase.telerate.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (WinNT; I) To: "Scott I. Remick" <chroma@together.net> > I'm looking to use a network card other than an NE2000-compatible > 16-bit ISA card. Anyone had any success with particular PCI NICs? > Kingston has an EtheRx PCI NIC that is quite inexpensive, and I've had > lots of success with Kingston cards (in other operating systems) and > like them a lot. So if there's support for this particular card, I'd > be interested, otherwise any PCI NIC success stories welcome :) Cards based on the DEC 21040-series chips seem very popular around here. At the office I have an SMC EtherPower PCI, using the 21041; I think the office paid about $150. At home I have a LinkSys card (can't remember the model); it uses the same chip as the SMC and cost me just under $100. Both cards work fine under FreeBSD 2.1.5, DOS 6.22 (various drivers), Windows 95, and Windows NT. Jim