On 15 Feb, [EMAIL PROTECTED] scribbled:
-> Ian Tester <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
-> > If I work up the courage, I'll take back the D-link and get some nice
-> > Intel EtherExpress-100 or Tulip cards from someone else!
->
-> I've got a "thing" about the Intel Etherexpress cards after all
-> the trouble we had with them at work. I've rabbited on before
-> about them, we now only use 3COM 905B 10/100 cards now and
-> have never had a problem (connecting to Cisco gear). The reason
-> I bought the Dlink instead is it's way cheaper, I am happy
-> with the Dlink 650-TXD pcmcia card I bought for my laptop and I
-> don't need top performance for my home network.
as a matter of fact the eepro "problems" basically resulted in intel
pointing a finger at cisco for generating malformed ehternet packets...
and sicso pointing a finger at intel saying its a perfectly fine packet
and that intle just dont handle all proper packets right.
in the ned theres patches in the kernel now that fix the eepro problem
- draga (one of the guys here at va) fixed it.
-> Second point, returning things to Hardly Normal is no problem.
-> I returned a modem that didn't work properly, but I wanted to
-> swap it for a more expensive model (and pay the difference) so
-> that probably helped. A previous occasion was years ago I
-> returned a crap sound card and CDROM combo. They took some
-> convincing then, I had to speak to the manager, mention phrases
-> like "it doesn't work as advertised", "trade practices act" and
-> generally hang around making a nuisance of myself but I got a
-> full refund.
->
-> Dave.
->
->
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