wow, i've not seen that behavior. Just for comparison purposes, I've got one in a Duron box (Duron 800) and no problems. I plan on getting an athlon for that box, so i'll keep and eye out, just in case.
thanks for the heads up dave On Tue, 2002-04-09 at 14:07, Steve Bremer wrote: > > I see lots of people recommending Netgear NICs, but nobody has mentioned > > Linksys, specifically the LNE100TX. I've had no problems whatsoever in > > the 2 yrs I've been using them. (tulip driver) A quick pricewatch search > > shows compuplus.com selling them for $4 right now. > > I've had good luck with the Linksys cards too, until I upgraded to an > athlon based machine. I don't know why, but my old Linksys cards > fail to work in my new athlon machine. They will come up, but as > soon as they see any heavy traffic (e.g. ftp'ing a 1+ MB file), they > die. I have to bring the interface down, reload the kernel modules, > and then bring the interface backup before it will work again. I > switched it for a D-Link card, and I haven't had any problems > since. I still use the Linksys in my old P2-266 w/o problems. > > Steve
