----- Original Message ----- From: "Brian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2004 6:56 PM Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Buying a new NIC
> On Wed, 2004-01-14 at 13:06, Stroller wrote: > > On Jan 14, 2004, at 6:37 pm, Scharf Yuval 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? > > > I have found that the Linksys cards use the tulip driver, and personnaly > they have poorer 100Mbps usability than the D-link (8139too) cards I > have. The big problem with the linksys was needing short cable length > for it to work without forcing 10Mbps speed. > I've run Linksys cards installed on Linux PCs with over 20 metres of cable, and have had them run reliably at 100 Mbps duplex for months. I do have one box with the D-Link 8139 installed, and it too has worked quite reliably. Krishnan -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
