FWIW, Realtek 8139's almost always work with the exception of the occasional D-Link. Of course, as stated before, you go Intel on your NIC and you can't go wrong.
You really trust a CS grad student to tell you what to buy? Eek. Hope that RAID isn't onboard. Don't expect it to be pretty if it is. Just like modems, if it ain't hardware based, don't waste too much time on it. As for drives, if they were the slimline Maxtor drives I'll take them. My collection is only about 20 right now. Not quite enough to create something with yet. That be all, Mr O. --- Brian Gallagher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was unclear. Ubuntu loves the Realtek (RTL8139.) I was > laughing about > the Netgear (FA310TX.) I have three of those so I'm glad to > hear that they > work. I had a problem with the FA310TX and FC2 a while back > where it was > taking 15 min for Samba to find the Windows shared file. > > Recently I was telling my neighbor about my success with > Ubuntu and his > gamer friend stated matter-o-factly "Samba is historically > spotty." O, now > you tell me! These CS grad students have convinced me that my > next computer > will be a MAC laptop. > I already have the final implementation hardware: ASUS > AV7333 /w RAID > support, dual 160GB seagate drives, etcetera. I had a hard > drive crash a > year ago and lost some data. That's what I get for buying > Maxtor. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
