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Right now I swear by these cards. Don't get the 3C900, dish out a few more bucks to get the 3C905 or 3C905B. You will one day have 100BaseT. Only had problem was when they first came out with the driver, now it just rocks!! Download the driver at ftp://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/pub/linux/drivers/test/3c59x.c just replace kernel driver with this one. They always worked right out of the box!! |
Intel EtherExpressPro 10/100 | I haven't heard any complaints about this card. I've installed it right out of the box without a problem on 5 linux boxes. Driver located at ftp://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/pub/linux/drivers/test/eepro100.c |
Digital Tulip Chipset Cards |
Pure crap.. Stay away!! They have problems detecting the type of network media you are using. I had to play with BIOS and switch PCI slots before I got them to work at all. I tried the same 5 cards with 3 different MBs(Asus,Supermicro,generic), all the network cards crapped out on each MB. alit of people swear by these, I swear at them. If you think I'm wrong buy me a NIC with the chipset so I can try it out again. I had a few complaints from some freaks saying these were "the best!!". I got one and played with it till I got it running.. Only had to switch PCI slots once. I'm going to beat the crap out of this one and report back. Driver located at ftp://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/pub/linux/drivers/test/tulip.c I finally got a change to compare the Tulip chipset to the Ether Express Pro 100B! Sorry no lovely looking graphs.. Only use these cards for light weight network use. Workstations are fine.. But servers HELL NO!..I had a eepro100 on a PII-233 and the tulip NIC on a PII-400 and the tulip craped out. Then I switched the NICs, same thing happen... POOF! went the tulip.. |