Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 17:27:56 -0800 (PST)
From: "S.Toms"
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Subject: Re: Good Network Card for SuSE 7?
On Wed, 15 Nov 2000, Cliff Sarginson wrote:
cs> On Wednesday 15 November 2000 13:46, Bryan S. Tyson wrote:
cs> > On Tue, 14 Nov 2000, S.Toms wrote:
cs> > > I've got two of the cards myself, haven't been able to get either one
cs> > > to work with 7.0. It appeared to be auto-detected but with a different
cs> > > name then what I would have expected, but when going into the network
cs> > > config portion of the initial install it would say no network card
cs> > > available (or something to that affect). Anyway, no go on my system. I
cs> > > swapped the cards out of my windows system and used it instead.
cs> >
cs> > What card did you end up using that worked, and was SuSE able to
cs> > autodetect it? Thanks.
cs> >
cs> There is always a thread or two going on network cards on this list !
cs> My contribution.
cs> Being poor and a cheapskate I buy network cards that I can afford.
cs> My network requirements are not industrial, so I cannot say how well
cs> these would perform under stress but I have both ISA NE2000 clones and
cs> PCI cards based on Realtek 8139 10/100 chips. These are both from Sitecom.
cs> I have used them under Suse, Debian, Slackware, Redhat, FreeBSD (and Windows
cs> '98, but that had other problems .. :) ). Apart from having to set the IRQ/IO
cs> values for the NE2000 clone I have not had a single problem (touch wood).
cs>
I've got an older 10/base-t card that matches what you have as well. It
probably would be detected also under 7.0 but I opted for the 10/100
models to speed up the network. I'll probably put together another system
for fussing around with and implement that card to see.
cs> Bearing in mind these are about 25% of the price of the cheapest alternatives
cs> here I am reasonably happy.
cs>
cs> Cliff
cs>
cs>
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