>
> 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. :-(
I would seek the used channel, you can easily get good Intel
chip based nics that just tend to work everywhere, are 10/100/1000,
for well under $20 shipped, and often close to $10.00.
ebay is the source. Se the em(4) man page for a good list of
chips and cards.
These well outwork and outperform any realtek card you might find,
I have used realtek when it is a builtin, or for simple testing.
The 8111 gigabit chips seem to work well everyplace I have
used them.
--
Rod Grimes rgri...@freebsd.org
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