On Tue, Jan 2, 2018 at 2:38 PM, Ronald F. Guilmette <r...@tristatelogic.com> wrote:
> > I need to buy a PCI-E ethernet card. It won't really matter if it > is 10/100/1000 or just 10/100 but it has to work with FreeBSD at a > minimum. It would be Nice if it was also supported by Linux and > Windoze7, but that isn't really critical. > > I'm a serious cheapskate, so I'd like to spend as little as possible. > I don't need anything super-deluxe. Whatever is cheapest will be fine, > even if the performance is only so-so. > > Recommendations would be appreciated. > > > P.S. The small amount of research I just now did suggests that Realtek > based cards should be avoided, but one reviewer said that the Rosewill > RC-411v3 works just fine on Ubuntu, so I'm not sure what to think about > Realtek-based cards now. The price is right (for me) on the Rosewill > RC-411v3, but various online threads (relating to Realtek chips) give > me pause... > > https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/60033/ > > https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/55861/ > > I really can't see blowing fifty bucks on a simple, low-end ethernet card, > but everything inexpensive seems to be Realtek-based. :-( > > You can get an new but older Intel PCI-E from the big retailer in the sky for ~$20USD. -- Adam _______________________________________________ freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hardware To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hardware-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
