Paonia Ezrine wrote:
>
> >
> > I typically recommend 21140 or 21143-based Tulip boards as being the
> > most stable under Linux, as well as being affordable. You can hunt
> > around and find decent Tulip boards for the price of a RTL8139 or
> > NetGear board.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Jeff
> >
> Jeff,
> could you make a specif recomendation or point me in the right
> direction. There are so many cards out there I found a like of Tulip based
> cards but they dont list the chip set that is used?
I am actually a poor person to make such a recommendation. :/
It's really tough to find out what chips are on what boards,
unfortunately :( Further compounding the problem is the fact that I
only get bug reports about problem cards, very rarely an "xxx board
works well!" report. Those problem boards, in turn, are mainly the
boards I seek to acquire.
Donald has recorded a sampling of some of the boards which work with his
drivers on the each driver web page, at http://www.scyld.com/network/
Since I particularly favor eepro100[1] and tulip chipsets, especially
tulips, hunt around for boards which use that driver. People seem to
report that the 21140-based Tulip boards are particularly stable, and
the PNIC boards (such as NetGear) are particularly unstable.[2]
For cheaper boards, the Via Rhine chips (such as DFE-530TX+, an easily
found el cheapo board) and Epic100 chips (SMC EtherPower II) work ok
despite minor hardware flaws. Older SMC EtherPower boards are tulips,
so snap them up if you can find them cheap.
Maybe some other readers can continue to speak up with their field
experience..
Regards,
Jeff
[1] although eepro100 has been hitting a few problems lately, according
to linux-kernel mailing list
[2] In comparing 21140 and PNIC chips, I make no claim whether this
disparity is due to the driver or the hardware or both
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