On Wed, Jan 10, 2001 at 10:30:33PM -0200, Rogerio Brito wrote: > > They are very cheap but reliable for me and according to several > > benchmarks they are faster than much more expensive 3Coms. > > Well, I've never seen NIC benchmarks, but I'm actually quite > interested (especially if they are Linux based). Could you > provide some references, please?
Yes, I do have some reference. In it's #16 in 1999 the german computer-technology magazine "c't" (http://www.heise.de) printed some benchmarks of 25 different NICs with different OSes. If you are interested I can mail them privately to you (because they contain jpegs). > > Setting it up is really simple. There exists an kernel-module which > > just has to be loaded (if it was built) and it should work. > > Yes. BTW, in recent kernels (like 2.2.18) there are actually > two modules for this card. One of them is Donald Becker's > rtl8139 and the other is Geff Garzik's 8139too. I'm only > familiar with Becker's (as it works wonderfully here). I used the old module till the release of 2.4.0 Both work fine. Phil