Hi Chris

Thanks for your reply. I found some info about that Broadcom NIC on this 
web page.

http://www.broadcom.com/products/Enterprise-Small-Office/Gigabit-Ethernet-Controllers/BCM5721

May be you could gleam some info from that page. The reason I ask about 
that NIC is because DELL use that sort of chipset on their PowerEdge 850 
Rack mount servers (It's an on board NIC) and this was the box I was 
going to install MonoWall on. I'm also looking a using PFSense when it 
is available, and I think it is compatible with this chipset. Anyway I 
trying to see if my DELL accounts manager can some how supply me with a 
MB with an Intel based on board NIC.

Thanks for your help

Mark


Chris Buechler wrote:

>On 10/28/05, Josh Hyles <josh dot maillists at gmail dot com> wrote:
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>>I vote we put some kind of page together with current hardware that we
>>have tested and know work. It would be simple and painless, I have xyz
>>card and i know it works, so I submit it to the page. I'd personally
>>like to know about wifi cards/adapters that work with monowall. the
>>freeBSD list is archaic.
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>I've tried to do this for over a year, but getting people to submit
>any information is far easier said than done.
>
>I was able to put together a very specific list of wireless cards that
>are supported, but that's relatively *very* easy since there aren't
>many.  There are likely to be literally thousands of different
>supported Ethernet NIC's, since most drivers support dozens of
>different chipsets, and many, many vendors each use each chipset. 
>Multiply it out and it gets huge fast.
>
>For wireless, see:
>http://doc.m0n0.ch/handbook/hardware-wireless.html
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>Of the "readily available cards" list, those are the ones of the long
>list of supported cards that are easy to get a hold of, and that I
>know someone is using with m0n0wall.
>
>To the original poster - there is practically no info on that chipset
>on Google.  Makes me think the model is a typo.  Otherwise, it sounds
>like a new chipset, so my first guess would be no, it's not supported.
> It's possible it might be supported by the bge driver in m0n0wall,
>but it might also be something for which support is only available in
>5.x or 6.x.  Best option?  Google.  or try it and let us know.
>
>-Chris
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