At 01:28 PM 12/26/2002 -0200, you wrote:
It has been my experience that you can always get discontinued cards (mostly pulls) from the "Not Exactly" section on Pricewatch... considering that they are about half-price... you can tolerate the occasional PCI shunt.> The 3C905C is no longer available: if you ask for one, you get given the > 905CX, which has the go-faster bits removed. Go instead for the 3C980C, > which appears to be a direct reincarnation of the 905C.I checked and we got both types. We recently received some 3C906C, but mostly 3C905CX. The first is a traditional-size card and the other is a smaller-size card, the size of an Intel eepro100. They seem to be quite equivalent, same drivers, same performance. I tested one of the 3C905CX and it got over 10 KBps in a few cases, quite close to the nominal rate which is 12.5 KBps for 100 Mbps. I can see no performance difference.
But Realtek-based cards are still cheaper new. And like almost everything in the Beowulf business, more of cheaper trumps fewer of better. I am etherbooting off of my Realteks (onboard the ECS K7SEM). Do you have a PXE Boot Agent (or equivalent) in your BIOS?
ftp://aiedownload.intel.com/df-support/3046/ENG/Relnotes.rtf
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