4.10. What network cards does FreeBSD support?

There is support for the following cards:

``de'' driver

DEC DC21x40 and compatible PCI controllers
(including 21140 100bT cards)

``ed'' driver

NE2000 and 1000
WD/SMC 8003, 8013 and Elite Ultra (8216)
3Com 3c503
And clones of the above

``le'' driver

DEC EtherWORKS II and EtherWORKS III controllers.

``ie'' driver

AT&T EN100/StarLAN 10
3COM 3c507
NI5210

``is'' driver

Isolan AT 4141-0
Isolink 4110

``el'' driver

3com 3c501 (does not support Multicast or DMA)

``eg'' driver

3com 3c505

``ze'' driver

IBM PCMCIA credit card adapter

``lnc'' drive

Lance/PCnet cards (Isolan, Novell NE2100, NE32-VL)(*)

``ep'' driver

3com 3c509

``ix'' driver

Intel InterExpress

``cx'' driver

Cronyx/Sigma multiport Sync/Async (Cisco and PPP framing)

``zp'' driver

3Com PCMCIA Etherlink III (aka 3c589)

``fea'' driver

DEC DEFEA EISA FDDI controller

``fpa'' driver

DEC DEFPA PCI FDDI controller

``fe'' driver

Fujitsu MB86960A/MB86965A Ethernet cards

NOTE Drivers marked with (*) are known to have problems.

NOTE We also support TCP/IP over parallel lines. At this point we are incompatiable with other versions, but we hope to correct this in the near future.