> > As for parrallel port...I'll leave that to the gurus on the list (am I > > right in saying you need to use PLIP?) :-) > > With the price of a pair of NE2k cards being around $20-30, why even > bother with PLIP? SOHO Basics (made by Accton) are probably the > cheapest Taiwanese hardware pieces I've ever seen, but I've been really > happy with them. I think the NICs were around $10, the 4 port hub was > $20. Toss in a pair of network cables and you're done for under $50. > And you've got room to add two more computers to the network when the > urge strikes you. Steve is right. That is dirt cheap. However, if you can, spend the little extra in getting a PCI NIC. Ones with the RTL 8029 chip are widely used by the cheap-o-rama Taiwanese manufacturers. And these are extremely easy to set up. I've used these at work for a long time with no problems. (our server has been on Linux since RedHat5.0). With RedHat and Mandrake's install / setup it works first time every time. (Set to NE2000 PCI) Regards, -------------------------------------- Kuraiken - Apprentice Codecaster --------------------------------------
