Jeff Garzik wrote:
> 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]
I have to say I disagree on this. We've been using the NetGear boards
almost exclusively for over a year at my site, and they have NEVER given
us problems. I have occasionally had problems with the NetGear cards
when they are on a network with Win98 hosts. The driver would choke, but
unloading and reloading the Tulip module would always solve the problem.
Scott
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