At 06:57 PM 3/18/2001, Kenneth E. Lussier wrote:

i personally like the 3c905b.  I haven't ever had ANY problems with 
them.....under openBSD, debian Linux 2.2, redhat and windows these cards 
work perfectly.  In fact they work so good that I installed 2 in 
trinity.usaexpress.net.  your may be thinking of the 3com 509c's  they have 
poor support...i can't recall why...but they do :-)

look at me dmesg output.  this is from 2.2.18.

3c59x.c 15Sep00 Donald Becker and others 
http://www.scyld.com/network/vortex.html
eth0: 3Com 3c905B Cyclone 100baseTx at 0x9000,  00:01:02:eb:c3:14, IRQ 12
   8K byte-wide RAM 5:3 Rx:Tx split, autoselect/Autonegotiate interface.
   MII transceiver found at address 24, status 786d.
   MII transceiver found at address 0, status 786d.
   Enabling bus-master transmits and whole-frame receives.
eth1: 3Com 3c905B Cyclone 100baseTx at 0x8800,  00:01:02:2f:72:18, IRQ 11
   8K byte-wide RAM 5:3 Rx:Tx split, autoselect/Autonegotiate interface.
   MII transceiver found at address 24, status 7849.
   MII transceiver found at address 0, status 7849.
   Enabling bus-master transmits and whole-frame receives.

thier cheap (i get them for around $45.00) and they work good.  plus thier 
3com - i'm a sucker for brand names.

~kurth

>I like the NetGear, personally. LinkSys is pretty good, as well (uses
>the NE2000 driver). And, I can say that I haven't had any trouble with
>Intel EEPro's.
>
>Kenny
>
>Tom Rauschenbach wrote:
> >
> > Well so far the only recommendations for NICs I've received have been about
> > 3COM  905s.  Unfortunately they've been both for and against.   Does 
> anybody
> > have a 100 BT NIC (other than the 3C905) that they like ?
> >
> > --
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> > Tom Rauschenbach    [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > All your base are belong to us
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