Erwan Arzur <er...@netvalue.fr> writes: > Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > > Anybody using a 3c509 and expecting it to work reliably should be > > taken out and shot in the back of the head. > would you please be more specific about that last sentence?
3Com 3c509 NICs are unreliable. Some work, others don't. They are also known to be temperamental, in that the same card may perform well in one computer but poorly in another. Add to that the fact that the driver is buggy (search the mailing list archives!), and what you get is a hardware/software combination I cannot in good faith recommend to anyone. If you need something cheap, go for an SMC or Kingston based NE2000 compatible ISA card. You'll probably get it cheaper than the 3c509, and it will work better (and be pnp-configurable to boot). DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - d...@flood.ping.uio.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
