News to me! Realtek chip works fine for me. But 3com often not easy.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Debian User Jean-Baptiste Note" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <debian-user@lists.debian.org> Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2001 6:45 PM Subject: Re: The Perfect Debian / Personal Computer > 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. > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
