Stan Hoeppner <s...@hardwarefreak.com> writes: > Johan Kullstam put forth on 3/27/2010 9:14 AM: > >> Pretty much all motherboards come with realtek ethernet. It's well >> night impossible to avoid. > > That statement is absolutely false. There are plenty of mobos on the market > with Broadcom, Intel, Marvell, nVidia, Via, and other ethernet on board. > > If you'd have said "Pretty much all _cheap_ motherboards come with Realtek > ethernet" I'd be more inclined to agree with you. However, I've seen a $55 > ($40 after rebate) ECS board on Newegg with Broadcom ethernet on board, so > not even all cheap boards use Realtek ethernet chips, although _most_ do. > > http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813135246 > > Hitting $75 USD and climbing up from there you'll see many more boards with > non Realtek ethernet.
Thanks. I just wish that newegg would put "ethernet" with "realtek" as a powersearch field so I could more easily reject the crabcard. -- Johan KULLSTAM -- 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/87y6hdhb05....@emmy.axel.nom
