DONT GET AN NE2000 CLONE!!! Although cheap (20 bucks for pci) they are
SLOW. Its an ISA card stuck onto a PCI bus. I started with this since it
was the only card RH 5.0 would recognize during install. Get a full duplex
card. You can find 3com for about 50 bucks (10baseT only) or you can use a
dec clone (tulip driver). I now use a Linksys etherfast 10/100. I got it
for 39.00. It is a full duplex card and performs quite well. They also
provide installation support for linux and the only NIC that sys it
supports
The only draw back is that I had to upgrade my driver (tulip.o) before the
card would work. If you have a modular kernel this is a piece of cake.
Get the drivers and install instructions from
http://maximus.bmen.tulane.edu/~siekas/tulip.html. I'm a newbie and I was
able to do the modular kernel install (chapter six in the RH 5.0 manual) a
then install the driver and the card worked :).
Scott
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On 5/27/98, at 12:22 AM, William T Wilson wrote:
>On Tue, 26 May 1998, Thomas Hubbell wrote:
>
>> I'm looking for a good, inexpensive, Linux-compatible Ethernet card.
>> ISA/10Mb is fine. Any suggestions?
>
>Get one of the $20 or $30 NE2000 clones. I use the Genius GE2000 cards,
>which work fine without any tweaking to the driver. Some NE2000 cards
>aren't exactly compatible and don't autodetect well, but I haven't ever
>heard of one which absolutely would not work. And they sure are cheap. :)
>
>If you're more interested in performance than price, the Tulip-based
>DEC/Intel cards work real well. 3com is another good choice for
>high-performance cards that cost a little more than the NE2000's, as all
>of their cards especially the ISA ones work.
>
>
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