On Fri, Dec 13, 2002 at 09:14:35PM -0500, Andrew Hurt wrote: | Greetings. | | Going to be getting DSL, soon, and I just don't know what make/model of | ethernet card I should get. | | PCI is a given, but I need something that goes well with >=2.4.19 kernels | and Debian 3.0 | | I've heard Intel and 3-Com, but . . . .
The manufacturer isn't very important. Instead focus on the model of
the main chip on the NIC. Those model designators will correspond to
drivers in the kernel. I have two "tulip" (they happen to be LinkSys
LNE100TX) cards in this machine, a RTL8139 (D-Link 690?, PCMCIA) in
another and two NE2000 clones (Netgear FA201?, ISA) cards in another.
I've also seen a few 3Com cards used (both PCMCIA and PCI (or was it
ISA?), the 3c59x driver). I favor the Linksys/DLink/Netgear cards
because they are quite a bit cheaper than 3Com. Both are fully
functional.
HTH,
-D
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