I agree, avoid the $10 types. I bought 5 realtek 8139 type cards for 6 bucks a piece. Everything seemed kosher, they even ran with the Linux drivers fine.... Until you had an unscheduled reboot due to power loss. Then they would forget who they were and what they were supposed to do. Didn't hurt the cards any... installed them in other machines, including windows NT and they worked fine until.....
-----Original Message----- From: Sean 'Shaleh' Perry [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 12, 2000 5:59 PM To: Ron Stordahl Cc: Debian User List Subject: RE: NIC Cards...is there any difference between them? On 12-May-2000 Ron Stordahl wrote: > 10Base-T RJ45 PCI Network Cards some in an incredible range of prices from > 10 bucks up. Is it possible that the only significant difference is the > brand name? > some cards only send even numbered packets (yes I am serious). Some cards are so cheap we do not know what chips are on them or how to control them. Read the list of supported hardware, buy something that sounds like that. Most of us avoid the 10 dollar cards. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null