On Tue, Jan 21, 2003 at 04:54:42PM -0700, Bob George wrote: > Of course, most will tend to be newer and thus PCI. Locally, Cox > Communications provides 3Com (originally a 3C509) but the trend seems to > be "customer provides PC WITH NIC". In that case, a user could easily > pop $10 for an inexpensive compatible PCI card. DEC Tulip-based and > RTL8139 are other popular, inexpensive NICs. Perhaps that's a good > compromise: A few ISA oldies that were popular in their day, and one (or > two) readily available modern variants that can be found cheaply.
I don't have a cable modem, but, FWIW, my P133 came with a cheap Realtek 8029 PCI NIC (ne2k-pci), which I am using now with Slack 7.1. If necessary, I can replace it with a 3Com 3c509 ISA. I use these in my other boxes and now have a spare (from my dead 386). Howard E. To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe SURVPC in the body of the message. Also, trim this footer from any quoted replies. More info can be found at; http://www.softcon.com/archives/SURVPC.html
