Re: 100M Ethernet PCI card recommendations

[Brian Keefer <chort@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Jul 3, 2008, at 3:22 PM, Ian McWilliam wrote:

> On 04/07/2008, at 3:34 AM, Don Hiatt wrote:
>
> > I'm trying to get OpenBSD/4.3 working on my old Mac G4 PCI 400Mhz
> > (Yikes!)
> > without much luck. Between the IDE timing out on writes and the  
> > ethernet
> > (bm0)
> > going down I've been unable to even get to a point where I can  
> > start to
> > debug
> > the machine.
> >
> > So, I was wondering if anyone could recommend an ethernet chipset  
> > that
> > works with OpenBSD on the Mac (Realtek, etc.)
> > <snip>
> > Thanks!
> >
> > don
>
> I'm sure I used fxp (intel 8255* series) successfully. The built-in  
> BMAC ethernet harware is such a dud implementation that it needs so  
> many software work arounds, it not funny.
>
>
> Ian McWilliam

I second the vote for 8255[789] based card.  I used to buy 82559s by  
the dozen and just toss them in any system I built.  I've never had a  
problem with one and I've managed to push them to near full wire  
speed.  My firewall at home (Pentium Pro 200) has 3 82559s in it and  
it's been running for several years with only a single crash (IDE- 
related).

I haven't tried running them in a G4, but if they support normal PCI  
cards just fine, it should work.

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