Re: Reliable USB NIC?
I have had very good luck with the Linksys USB100TX adapters. I have four of them supporting small X terminals, and they have turned out to be more reliable than the terminals (they crash for reasons unrelated to their network connections). They also have decent performance for a USB 1.x device. If your system has support for USB 2.0, Linksys does make a USB 2.0 version of the adapter, but I don't have any experience with them. Regards, Seth Henry I know it sounds like an oxymoron, but I'm looking for a reliable USB NIC that's supported by FreeBSD 4.8 or -STABLE. It's going to be attached to my cable modem (currently 512kbps down, 128kbps up, transferring a few hundred MB daily) so speed is not really relevant. What I do need is something that will stay up for months -- essentially the time between kernel upgrades -- without needing any attention from me. Sadly it has to be USB, since the machine it's going in only has room for 1 PCI card, and that's occupied by the wireless adapter. Hmm, I guess 'not too expensive' and 'available in the UK' should be on that list too :-) Does such a beast exist? Cheers, Scott ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Reliable USB NIC?
On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 12:24:24PM -0400, J. Seth Henry wrote: I have had very good luck with the Linksys USB100TX adapters. I have four of them supporting small X terminals, and they have turned out to be more reliable than the terminals (they crash for reasons unrelated to their network connections). They also have decent performance for a USB 1.x device. I'm glad you said this, since I just picked one of these up on ebay. I'd managed to borrow a Belkin unit that also uses the aue driver, so the Linksys seemed like a reasonable bet, especially at under 10 pounds :-) If your system has support for USB 2.0, Linksys does make a USB 2.0 version of the adapter, but I don't have any experience with them. It will have USB 2.0 (VIA EPIA-M Mini-ITX board), but I don't think -STABLE has any 2.0 support yet, so it will be running in USB 1.1 compatibility mode for now. Not that driving my 512kbps cable connection will be particularly taxing for it in either mode... Thanks for the info, Scott -- === Scott Mitchell | PGP Key ID | Eagles may soar, but weasels Cambridge, England | 0x54B171B9 | don't get sucked into jet engines scott at fishballoon.org | 0xAA775B8B | -- Anon ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reliable USB NIC?
I know it sounds like an oxymoron, but I'm looking for a reliable USB NIC that's supported by FreeBSD 4.8 or -STABLE. It's going to be attached to my cable modem (currently 512kbps down, 128kbps up, transferring a few hundred MB daily) so speed is not really relevant. What I do need is something that will stay up for months -- essentially the time between kernel upgrades -- without needing any attention from me. Sadly it has to be USB, since the machine it's going in only has room for 1 PCI card, and that's occupied by the wireless adapter. Hmm, I guess 'not too expensive' and 'available in the UK' should be on that list too :-) Does such a beast exist? Cheers, Scott -- === Scott Mitchell | PGP Key ID | Eagles may soar, but weasels Cambridge, England | 0x54B171B9 | don't get sucked into jet engines scott at fishballoon.org | 0xAA775B8B | -- Anon ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
