And if we come to talk about network cards, avoid like hell the chipset realtek 8139, especially if you have a K7/VIA based motherboard. avoid like hell DFE-530TX, only if you have a K7/VIA confguration. I can tell you from experience on 3 <> computers that they either, do not run in a useable way (ie, have to ifup/ifdown every 30 sec when using the network) or run bad (slowdowns all of a sudden, yet no intervention is required to get them back to work) or fill your kernel logs with tons of messages (netdev watchdog, I didn't try to modify the kernel source =))
Intel / 3Com rules. -- I'm an occurence of the I love GNU virus. Please help me spread.
