On Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 07:21:51PM -0600, Michael Hipp wrote: >Any particular model as a favorite? Thanks.
Whatever they're selling today in a 10/100 PCI NIC should probably do the trick. I always have a hard time keeping up with the Latest & Greatest model numbers. SMC also produces excellent NICs, but I haven't used any on Linux for quite a while (most of the ones we have are on SCO OpenServer boxen). The only good thing about ISA NE2000 NICs was that they were cheap. I haven't had significant problems with the Compex PCI NE2000 cards, but I wouldn't consider them high performance. LinkSys NICs have had a bad reputation for flakiness unless one uses Tulip drivers that are a bit different than what's in the standard kernels. This may well be out of date (e.g. 2.0.36 or so). I've had some problems with their PCMCIA NICs as well so just haven't used any LinkSys in the last couple of years. I don't remember any particular problems with the NetGear NICs using Tulip drivers. The IBM eSeries 340 systems we've been installing recently have on-board NICs that use the pcnet32 module. I'm not all that familiar with the pcnet32 modules, but a quick google search says they're for the AMD ``Lance'' chipset. This was used on several Racal Interlan NICs which were excellent cards, but are no longer available under the Racal name. Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC UUCP: camco!bill PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way FAX: (206) 232-9186 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820; (206) 236-1676 URL: http://www.celestial.com/ ``...I'm not one of those who think Bill Gates is the devil. I simply suspect that if Microsoft ever met up with the devil, it wouldn't need an interpreter.'' -- Nick Petreley _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
