> Secondly, I was less pleased to find out that the wired nic is by > realtek and required a non-free bit of firmware
Which chipset is it? I've always had good results from Realtek wired stuff, and a very pleasant experience when I wanted to run a DVB chipset from them... Vic. -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --------------------------------------------------------------