Hi, I am very happy with tulip based cards. There is an actively developed set of drivers and other information at http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/tulip.html.
manoj /* tulip.c: A DEC 21040-family ethernet driver for Linux. */ /* Written 1994-1998 by Donald Becker. This software may be used and distributed according to the terms of the GNU Public License, incorporated herein by reference. This driver is for the Digital "Tulip" ethernet adapter interface. It should work with most DEC 21*4*-based chips/ethercards, as well as PNIC and MXIC chips. The author may be reached as [EMAIL PROTECTED], or C/O Center of Excellence in Space Data and Information Sciences Code 930.5, Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt MD 20771 Support and updates available at http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/tulip.html */ -- There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies and the other is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. Charles Anthony Richard Hoare Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.datasync.com/%7Esrivasta/> Key C7261095 fingerprint = CB D9 F4 12 68 07 E4 05 CC 2D 27 12 1D F5 E8 6E