On Wed, 14 Jan 2004 20:37:12 +0200 (IST) Scharf Yuval <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | Tomorrow I'll buy a new NIC (I'm tired of USB-ADSL). | | My question is can I buy whatever NIC I want or some NICs will not in | Linux?
Most NICs work fine. A few really cheap no-name ones don't (only NIC I've had serious problems with is a Belkin one). Your best bet is to go for an Intel e100 chipset NIC, because they definitely work well and they're good cards (hardware checksumming and so on). Natsemi (used in Netgear cards amongst others) and modern 3com (avoid the old ones, a few are wierd) chipsets are also reasonable. Realtek will work, but the performance is rather sucky if your PCI bus is under load (aah, I just know that at least one person will flame me for saying that -- the chipset works, it's just not very smart). If in doubt, do a make menuconfig and have a read :) -- Ciaran McCreesh Mail: ciaranm at gentoo.org Web: http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm
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