Hugo Vanwoerkom put forth on 4/15/2010 2:34 PM: > That's a real pain. > NewEgg has no filter on netcards for mobo's
Yeah, I know, it sucks. I wasted a lot of time doing research for a previous thread trying to hunt down mobos with Intel or non-Realtek ether chips. It's a slow process. See if you can find a way to ask for that search criteria. I'll do the same. Might have to call customer service. It would be really nice to see that option. BTW, ever tried finding Atom based mobos on Newegg? That's a pain also. They're only listed in the mobo-vga-cpu combo section. Before that they were in the server motherboard section, or at least some were. If you're an Intel guy, look at Intel brand mobos only as most of them have Intel ethernet chips, eg e100/e1000 driver. Some Intel boards do have Realtek ethernet chips so pay attention. On the AMD side, look for motherboards with nVidia chipsets which usually have ethernet build into the MCP southbridge. Sometimes, to get everything you want, you end up buying a PCI/e NIC and disabling the onboard. I know some sysops who do this as a matter of course because they're convinced any on-board "free" NIC is cheap and thus not reliable. So they go buy an e1000 card, and it's the same damn chip lol. Anyway... -- Stan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4bc79d57.1040...@hardwarefreak.com
