Yes, this is offtopic and rantish.
I am now trying NIC #4 in my crap hand-me-down router. (Numbers 1-3 have
strange problems in OpenBSD.)
My question:
I buy the second most expensive NIC at Altex, a $95 ``3com Etherlink
10/100 Mbps PCI Network Interface Card''.
I plug it in.
Before the system looks for a boot media, the NIC somehow gets control and
insists that I boot using the ``Managed PC Boot Agent (MBA)''. This MBA
has a settings menu, with which I can pick a variety of ways to boot my
computer off the notwork. Naturally, none of these options are the
equivalent of ``Leave you the fsck alone and boot like a normal NIC
without so many fscking features''.
How do I get rid of this thing?!
Should I exchange it for the $105 Intel card? Or do decent NICs cost even
more these days? Is anyone selling a cheap computer with TWO NICs that
work?!
-Paul
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