On Mon, May 13, 2002 at 11:34:16PM +0100, Alex Hunsley wrote: | I'm going to buy a new network card for my machine (running Debian potato | 2.2r6). | | 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)?
I have 2 Linksys LNE-100TX cards (PCI) in my machine. One is Rev 2.0 (several years old) and the other is Rev 4.1 (little over a year old now). Both are 'tulip'. I have 2 Netgear EA-201 (ISA) cards in a router box at my parents' home. They're both 'ne2k' cards, but require booting to MS-DOS (a floppy is sufficient) and running their config program to disable PnP. They work great other than that (and they don't auto-detect full-duplex, but they're still faster than the dsl line they route for). I've also worked with 3 PCMCIA cards, 2 were 3c59x and one is a D-Link card that uses the 8139too driver. I wouldn't buy 3Com cards only because they are overpriced (I didn't buy nor do I own the 3Com cards I've tried). I've also heard good things about the D-Link DFE-530TX+ (PCI). It's either a realtek 8139 or a tulip clone. The Netgear FA-301 cards are supposed to be well-supported too (ne2k-pci? tulip? one of those common chipsets). HTH, -D -- Windows, hmmm, does it come with a GUI interface that works or just pretty blue screens? GnuPG key : http://dman.ddts.net/~dman/public_key.gpg
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