On 2006/12/27 19:02, Matt Radtke wrote: > Good evening all > > Has anyone found a Gigabit NIC that works in a Soekris > 4801? Bonus points if its small enough to fit in one > of their cases as well.
The em(4) I tried works fine. Probably any gigabit NIC will work. Make sure you plug it in the right way round: the port goes at the front where the metal of the case is (i.e. you'll need to cut a hole in the front of the case to use it). Performance is pretty much the same as the onboard sis(4) devices; this is only worth doing if you need to connect to something that doesn't support 100Mb and you don't actually need the throughput. If you actually want >100Mb (or 100Mb even), you'll need a system which handles PCI better than the Geode-based ones.
