After the posts on problems with the tlan cards, I ordered one of these:

http://www.cmishop.com/store/ShowDetails.asp?txtProductName=nic/pila8472-bk&txtMfgPartNo=&nCategorySubID=125&txtSiteTrack=pw



I also have a PCI64 slot on the motherboard, so I should be golden. 
Thanks for the Intel recommendation.

Also, is there a CF-IDE adaptor that works well with m0n0, or will 
anything I can get work? I'd prefer to have an external card reader, so 
I could just swap cards for LAN days and keep things more locked down 
the rest of the time.

-Fig



Chris Buechler wrote:

>On 10/7/05, Phil Carinhas <pac at fortuitous dot com> wrote:
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>>  Speaking of crappy nics, are the via nics (like those found on
>>eden/epia boards) any better? What other nics should we avoid?
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>Not sure, really.  I haven't used that many NIC's with FreeBSD or
>m0n0wall.  Only 3Com (xl), Intel (fxp and em), various Realtek (rl)
>cards, the sis cards built into WRAP and Soekris boards, and one
>oddball dc driver card that I don't remember the brand of anymore.
>
>Intels really seem to be the holy grail of FreeBSD NIC's.  The drivers
>are as solid as anything I've used (Intel themselves writes the em
>driver for FreeBSD), and they're faster than anything else I've used.
>
>When it comes to NIC's and FreeBSD, I've never heard anything touted
>but Intel.
>
>If anybody knows of others to avoid, I'd like to hear about them.
>
>-Chris
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