On Friday 08 February 2002 05:06 pm, Paul Ollion, went on about:

Hello I am considering the purchase of a new box with a network card and DVD reader.Never had any of them before . And would not like too many troubles installing them. I guided myself from several posts on the list for the choice of the various elements of the system, but I still have a few questions.

1) The vendor proposes a 3Com - 3c905 CTX network card. Will it work with SuSE 7.3 ? I saw it was not in the Yast2 list, though there were several 3Com cards . 2) As for DVDs , can any standard reader work , as for CDs ?

Thanks in advance.

Paul, I think you will find the DVD/CDROM combo drive to be pretty easy to use and setup. You should not run into any serious problems no matter what the brand as it usually just appears as a good cdrom drive. I was getting ready to get the more expensive 3Com network card also with the present system I am building for a customer, but decided against paying extra for the name. I ended up getting the NetGear FA310TX 10/100 card that uses the well supported Tulip drivers. Both 7.2 Pro and 7.3 Pro like the card very much and it is probably half the price of the 3Com. Good Luck, Patrick -- ---KMail 1.3.2--- SuSE Linux v7.2 Pro--- Registered Linux User #225206 /tracerb@sprintmail.com/ *Magic Page Products* Amiga-Sales & Service-http://home.sprintmail.com/~tracerb

Hello, Paul. I have four machines here with 3C905B cards in them, the predecessor to the 3C905C. The 3C905B cards work perfectly under SuSE 7.3, and I have not heard of any problems with the 3C905C cards as yet. They are very popluar and work well. To everyone else on the list, this recommendation comes from MY preferences and MY experience. I am NOT trying to spark off yet another flamewar over which network card is best. The 3COM card will no doubt suffice for Paul's needs. As for the DVD drive, I can wholeheartedly recommend a Pioneer. I have four of their 16X/IDE/Tray Loading ones and have never had any trouble. These drives also work as a 40x CD-ROM drive. And, as I recall, they were fairly inexpensive for what has proven to be a good device. It certainly made installing SuSE 7.3 easy; boot from the DVD, answer a few questions, have a cup of coffee or two and proceed to use the system. Bear in mind that the speed multiplier for a DVD is not comparable to the speed of a CD. 1x CD speed is only 150k/s, whereas 1x DVD speed is about 1.35MB/s. If you don't yet have a CD burner, there are also combination DVD-ROM/CD-RW drives that you might like to consider. They only read DVDs, but allow you to read, write and re-write CDs all in the same device. However, since I haven't used any of these devices myself, I can't recommend any particular make/model. Maybe someone else will suggest one. Bye for now, Stuart. -----Original Message----- From: Paul Ollion [mailto:pollion@online.fr] Sent: 08 February 2002 22:07 To: Suse-Linux-E Subject: [SLE] advice for network card and DVD Hello I am considering the purchase of a new box with a network card and DVD reader.Never had any of them before . And would not like too many troubles installing them. I guided myself from several posts on the list for the choice of the various elements of the system, but I still have a few questions. 1) The vendor proposes a 3Com - 3c905 CTX network card. Will it work with SuSE 7.3 ? I saw it was not in the Yast2 list, though there were several 3Com cards . 2) As for DVDs , can any standard reader work , as for CDs ? Thanks in advance. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Paul Ollion Proud Linux User - SuSE 7.3 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq and the archives at http://lists.suse.com

On Saturday 09 February 2002 05:06, Paul Ollion wrote:

1) The vendor proposes a 3Com - 3c905 CTX network card. Will it work with SuSE 7.3 ? I saw it was not in the Yast2 list, though there were several 3Com cards .

I own 3 computer running SuSE 7.3 on my house. 1 use 3COM 3C905C 2 use 3COM 3C905B all good.... -- SuSE 7.3Pro KDE 2.2.2 Kernel 2.4.10