No-name NICs
Hi, how likely is a no-name 100MBit NIC to just work with 3.9 stable? Background: When I recently tried to get a replacement for a swapped-out FA311v1, I noticed that I can get very cheap (5) no-name NICs (one even claimed to be NE2000 compatible), but getting brand cards which OpenBSD supports was difficult (I ended up with a FA311v2 which luckily is supported). Now my other sis seems to be slowly dying (spurious watchdog timeouts), so I'm looking for a replacement. Best Martin
Re: No-name NICs
On Tuesday 06 June 2006 17:42, Martin Schrvder wrote: Hi, how likely is a no-name 100MBit NIC to just work with 3.9 stable? In my experience, very. Most are using the same chipsets (ie rl) as the brand NICs anyway. I cant recall ever having a NIC, brand or non-brand, that didnt work. --- Lars
Re: No-name NICs
On 6/6/06, Lars Hansson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 06 June 2006 17:42, Martin Schrvder wrote: Hi, how likely is a no-name 100MBit NIC to just work with 3.9 stable? Very, in my experience, They almost always use a Realtek 8139 chipset - rl(4). -- ach
Re: No-name NICs
On 2006/06/06 11:42, Martin Schrvder wrote: how likely is a no-name 100MBit NIC to just work with 3.9 stable? Very - same for no-name 1GBit. The only NIC I've seen recently that didn't work was ULi M5261/M5263 (a dc-like 10/100 device) mostly (only?) used on motherboards with a ULi chipset (formerly ALi and now owned by Nvidia).
Re: No-name NICs
Lars Hansson wrote: On Tuesday 06 June 2006 17:42, Martin Schrvder wrote: Hi, how likely is a no-name 100MBit NIC to just work with 3.9 stable? In my experience, very. Most are using the same chipsets (ie rl) as the brand NICs anyway. I cant recall ever having a NIC, brand or non-brand, that didnt work. Agreed. Whatever chip they use, the manufacturer is usually more interested in selling product than keeping you from using it outside of the Windows environment. Thus, we probably have docs, and the driver probably works pretty well (even if the chip itself is often resoundingly criticized). Kinda silly how much effort some big-name companies put into making sure you CAN'T use their product anywhere and everywhere... Nick.
