Manuel McLure wrote: > I highly recommend getting an Intel card. Back in the day the e1000 > cards were the ones to get, > nowadays https://www.newegg.com/intel-expi9301ctblk/p/N82E16833106033 > should be a good option for a single port card. Intel cards have been > well supported in Linux for a long time. >
That card is a little cheaper too. I did some research a while back and it seems the Intel i350 is well supported in Linux. Intel makes them but so does Dell and others. From my understanding, they all work the same since they have the same chipset tho. But, the one you linked to is cheaper and I found one on ebay even cheaper. Really nifty. :-D I was looking at the mobo manual and noticed the built in network port is a 1Gb chip as well. It is a Realtec and the last time I tried to use it, it was a bit flakey. Sometimes it would work but sometimes I'd have to restart the network to get it going again. That was about a decade ago. I wonder, is the drivers better today than they were then? I would have used it all this time if it worked well. Anyone have experience with this in the last year or so that is showing it working really well and stable? Keep in mind, I run 24/7 here. If that works fine, I could just use it. lspci shows this for the on board network: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 06) I have 2 PCIex1 and one PCIex 4 slots open. The small ones are close to my video card and I'm not sure I can use them. Can I plug these types of cards into the larger slots? I think I read once that can be done. It's been ages tho. My old network card appears to be in a old PCI plain slot. It's a really old card, works faithfully tho. This may require some rearranging. Or using the on board network one. I'd really prefer the card tho. They just tend to work better. Thoughts?? Thanks. Dale :-) :-)
