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If memory serves me right, Chris Buechler wrote: > On Tue, 22 Mar 2005 05:28:53 -0800 (PST), Max Khitrov <maximkh at yahoo dot com> wrote: > > Yea I found the same post, but perhaps this was fixed seeing as it was > > back in 2004? Looking at the 5.3 Hardware compatibility list > > (http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.3R/hardware-i386.html#ETHERNET) it > > does list the sk(4) driver along with a number of SysKonnect cards, > > just not this one. > > > > Anyone here think it's worth to try it anyway, or is it pretty much a > > guaranteed no go? > > > > Well, the driver is in the m0n0wall kernel. That post I mentioned is > a tad old, but that's still post 5.3-RELEASE and b7 is using "FreeBSD > 5.3-RELEASE #0". If you don't mind possibly ending up with a NIC that > you can't use with m0n0wall right now, I say go for it. Hell it's > cheap, I'd take one for the team and give it a shot. :) Let us know > how it goes if you do! I like that attitude. :-) (And I mean that in all sincerity.) I think that at least some of the "issues" alluded to were fixed post-5.3. See: http://people.freebsd.org/~bmah/relnotes/5-STABLE/relnotes-i386.html ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ERRATA/notices/FreeBSD-EN-05:02.sk.asc No idea if the particular card mentioned is supported or not. Bruce. | ||||||||||