Re: The Perfect Debian / Personal Computer
News to me! Realtek chip works fine for me. But 3com often not easy.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Debian User Jean-Baptiste Note" <noteje@poly.polytechnique.fr>
To: <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2001 6:45 PM
Subject: Re: The Perfect Debian / Personal Computer
> And if we come to talk about network cards,
> avoid like hell the chipset realtek 8139, especially if you have a K7/VIA
based motherboard.
> avoid like hell DFE-530TX, only if you have a K7/VIA confguration.
> I can tell you from experience on 3 <> computers that they either, do not
run in a useable way (ie, have to ifup/ifdown every 30 sec when using the
network)
> or run bad (slowdowns all of a sudden, yet no intervention is required to
get them back to work) or fill your kernel logs with tons of messages
(netdev watchdog, I didn't try to modify the kernel source =))
>
> Intel / 3Com rules.
>
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>
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