uhhh broadcoms suck under FreeBSD also, well at least the GigE chipsets, Intels are fine though
On Tue, 2005-11-15 at 09:07 +0200, Frimmel, Ivan (ISS South Africa) wrote: > I echo that ! I've used 3coms through the many generations on various > os's.. They even sucked hard under DOS(3c509) and even worse under > Novell .. One might have thought they could get there sh*t together over > time .. But alas .. not. > > Broadcoms and Intels are generally the best in my experience a lot of > the old drivers work on current generations of cards .. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Bill Marquette [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, November 15, 2005 4:45 AM > To: support@pfsense.com > Subject: Re: [pfSense Support] WAN DHCP not working ? > > On 11/14/05, Emanuel A. Gonzalez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Well, thanks Scott, you were right, the problem isn't the new release, > > > but hardware. I have changed the nic before, but seems that the 3COM > > 3C905-TX has some issues, cause both nics I tried were this model, and > > > both had the same problem. > > > > After I decided to change to an IBM Nic, the problem was solved, now > > I'm running on 0.93.2. > > > > Perhaps is a bug with the driver for this card, cause it was working > > just fine with any other previous version. > > > > Anyway, thanks again for your support and help! > > Somehow, the fact that this was a 3com card that had issues doesn't > surprise me. :-/ 3Com cards have a very bad reputation in the bsd > world - while quite popular, they seem to suck pretty bad and the many > changes in the card make driver support not so good. > > --Bill > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional > commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
