Re: looking for cheap 100baset cards

[Donald Becker]

On Fri, 16 Jun 2000, Jeff Garzik wrote:

> 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

The current production DFE-530+ uses the RTL8139, *not* the VIA Rhine chip
in the (pre-WOL) DFE-530.  New boards will be using the VIA Rhine-II (also
with WOL).

> [1] although eepro100 has been hitting a few problems lately, according
> to linux-kernel mailing list

Hmmm, ten months after the kernel diverged from my version and it's still
not working for everyone?

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