I like Netgear (the FA310TX should be available on Amazon), and the dirt cheap CompUSA network cards and Hawking Technology cards. Currently One of my machines is using a Hawking Technology 10/100 card that I bought for $9.99 on Amazon. I love it! The cheapo cards all seem to have Realtek chipsets. Anything with a Realtek 8139 chipset should just work.
With some PCI devices like SCSI cards you may have to swap cards in and out, or swap them into and out of different PCI slots, before getting a working set of cards that coexist and function. That has happened to me with and (older) Adaptec SCSI card.
However, the cheaper cards might not use all 4 of the wires needed for a TIA 568A-standard connection. They might use fewer.
Bob Cochran
Greenbelt, Maryland, USA
Mike Chambers wrote:
----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert R Baer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, November 05, 2002 9:29 AM
Subject: RE: Red Hat 8.0 Netgear FA311 identification and IRQ assignment
We have a Circuit City fairly close - I'm going to call over there to seeBuy,
if they can find me a FA310TX. Someone had also mentioned using an Intel
EtherExpress Pro, but I find that the local stores (Circuit City, Best
Staples, etc.) only carry the cheaper brands, such as Linksys, Netgear,I've used Linksys NIC's for years and pretty much haven't had any problems
Siemens, etc.
with them. I'd be willing to bet if you bought one of those linksys NIC's
from best buy and install it, that it would work just fine.
Mike
