Re: good choice of network card?
On Monday 13 May 2002 06:51 pm, Jamin W. Collins wrote:
> On Mon, 13 May 2002 23:34:16 +0100
>
> "Alex Hunsley" <lard@tardis.ed.ac.uk> wrote:
> > Are there any net cards with a good reputation for stability and ease of
> > install (i.e. not having to compile my own driver would be a plus)?
>
> Personally, I'm partial to the Realtek based cards (used frequently on
> inexpensive cards). The cards are fairly generic and very stable in my
> experience.
I buy rtl8139.o cards for as low as USD6.00 not counting s/h. The 8139
circuitry is embedded in some Biostar M7VKQ mobos I am using as well. They
are not high performance cards - probably better suited in for use in a
workstations. I use them in servers that are performance limited by a 56Kb
WAN connections. I use an older version of the driver for
successful operation in the Biostar M7VKQ mobo (true for both on-board and
PCI add-on). Compiling drivers is not hard to do.
http://www.scyld.com/page/support/network/ has all the details you need. My
experience is derived from having built 9 systems based on home rolled 2.2.14
kernels. I can report that one of my machines with a PCI 8139 successfully
worked with 2.4.x and related drivers.
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