On Wed, 03 Nov 1999, you wrote:
> You're probably right about going for name brand, you get better performance
> etc, though the HOWTO gave me the impression that the Realtek 8029 was a
> well supported chipset, though I see what you mean, the driver might just
> assume it's an ISA card.
>
> Fortunately the vendor I purchased from actually sells Linux Mandrake
> pre-installed (www.trinix.com.au). They sold me a card they knew would work
> with Linux, if I hadn't worked it out myself by the following Monday, I'm
> sure they would have helped me out. In mess around home systems, where
> there is nothing critical happening, it becomes harder to justify to the
> missus the extra cost of high performance network cards.
>
> Oh well, at home I have 10M for two computers, at work there is 10M for 30.
> I can't complain.
>
Well, I got my Kingston card on sale... something like $20, I
think... :-) And it's a DEC Tulip chipset as well.. :-)
John
