Network Adapters

Purchasing *BSD and Linux compatible network cards is somewhat harder for gigabit ethernet and wireless ethernet cards since they are newer.

The starred ones have best support, with one notable exception, the Intel gigabit is not fully open source and supported directly by Intel.

Gigabit Ethernet

• * Alteon Tigon I/II-based adapters
  
  
  
  • 3Com 3c985 and 3c985B
    
  • Alteon ACEnic V (fiber and copper)
    
  • Digital EtherWORKS 1000SX
    
  • Farallon PN9000SX
    
  • Netgear GA620 and GA620T
    
  • SGI Tigon
    
  
  
• * Intel i82540, i82542, i82543, i82544, i82545, and i82546 based adapters
  
  
  
  • Intel PRO/1000T Desktop Adapter (PWLA8390T)
    
  • Intel PRO/1000MT Desktop Adapter (PWLA8390MT)
    
  
  
• National Semiconductor DP83820 and DP83821 based PCI adapters
  
  
  
  • Addtron AEG320T
    
  • Ark PC SOHO-GA2500T (32-bit PCI) and SOHO-GA2000T (64-bit PCI)
    
  • Asante FriendlyNet GigaNIX 1000TA and 1000TPC
    
  • D-Link DGE-500T
    
  • LinkSys EG1032 (32-bit PCI) and EG1064 (64-bit PCI)
    
  • Netgear GA621
    
  • Netgear GA622T
    
  • SMC EZ Card 1000 (SMC9462TX)
    
  • Surecom Technology EP-320G-TX
    
  • Trendware TEG-PCITX (32-bit PCI) and TEG-PCITX2 (64-bit PCI)
    
  
  
• Broadcom BCM570x (a.k.a. Tigon3) based PCI adapters
  
  
  
  • 3Com 3c996-T (10/100/1000baseTX)
    
  • 3Com 3c996-SX (1000baseSX)
    
  • 3Com 3c996B-T (10/100/1000baseTX)
    
  • Dell PowerEdge 2550 integrated BCM5700 NIC (10/100/1000baseTX)
    
  • SysKonnect SK-9D21 (10/100/1000baseTX)
    
  • SysKonnect SK-9D41 (1000baseSX)
    
  
  

Wireless Ethernet

• * Aironet 4500/4800 802.11DS ISA PnP, PCMCIA and PCI
  
• * Intersil Prism II PCMCIA
  
• * Lucent WaveLAN PCMCIA