On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 02:19:48PM -0800, Mr Mine Sakiyama wrote:

> I am thinking about installing NetBSD on SparcUltra5
> workstation to use as IPFilter/NAT firewall. I read
> that you could use some PCI NIC on Ultra5 , if you use
> NetBSD (I cannot afford Sun PCI cards..) Do you have
> recommendation for any cards that are known to work?
> Also it is required that PROM sees the card for it to
> function properly in NetBSD?

No, any PCI card supported by a machine-independant driver will work
in NetBSD, though you may not be able to boot from it. You can find
a list of those here:

	http://www.netbsd.org/Hardware/pci.html

There are quite a few :)

I've succesfully used fxp, tlp and rtk PCI ethernet cards in an
Ultra 10.

grant.