On Thursday, February 22, 2001 8:39 AM, Dave Fitch
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> On Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 12:15:25PM -0800, Nicholas Lawrence wrote:
> > Apologies for the long-winded post - I guess my question boils down
> > to:
> > 1. Is anyone having problems with 1 or 2 8139 cards in the same
> > machine?
> > 2. The Intel seems to be a very popular choice - would it be worth
> > investing in (I know worth is relative but the difference is 128meg
> > of ram <g>).
>
> you may have read my recent posts on problems getting a
> Dlink DFE-530TX card to work, well I swapped it for a
> RealTek 8139 card (brand is "skymaster") and that works
> great (auto-detected etc in esmith 4.1 (based on RH7)).
> I've no idea of performance but it works for me.
>
> Dave.
To second the motion, I have had some intermittent problems with the intel
82559. On a Slackware 7.1 box, it seemed to work fine for a week or more but
would occasionally dump the interface with errors similar to
RX buffer not available
TX buffer not available
Rebooting (eek!) was necessary to bring it back on line.
It might have been a driver issue... but I would have thought 7.1 would be
fairly up to date... Anyways I ripped it out and threw in a cheapy Netgear
which is doing very well. ;)
Cheers,
Marty
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