On Wednesday 18 September 2002 10:04, Crossfire wrote: <snip> > > Just realise that the rtl8139's are simplistic cards (hence their > compatibility), but you trade off their simplicity against the amount > of CPU time in the host they burn. > > [One of the reasons why getting rid of the RTL8139 gave such a > dramatic performance increase was we were using it in a K6-200...] > > Personally, I'll only use RTL8139s when I can't use anything else. > > If you want to be stubborn and avoid the FA310s, then go second-hand > hunting for 3c905s, EEPro100s and DEC 21x40s (Tulip). I got my 3c905s > via the markets for around $25-60 each. My DEC 21x40s I got for $10 > each.
If your prepared to spend $40 on a card, I recommend the D-link DFE-530TX, we sell them @ my work, and I use them a lot for Diskless X-terms, as they are the cheapest network card that can take a bootprom. Not sure what Linux kernels support it though, as I use was using BSD at the time. Patrick <snip> -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
