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Article #55680Re: ethernet cards - experience?
From: David Woodruff
Date: Tue, 13 May 1997 00:00
Date: Tue, 13 May 1997 00:00
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On 12 May 97 22:21:01 , tlang@freeway.DIALix.oz.au (Tony Langdon)
wrote:
>I've never had problems with any OS finding NE2000 clones, except OS/2,
>which doesn't support them out of the box (you have to get the right
>drivers off the Net). Linux behaves well, despite all the potential
>problems the Ethernet howto mentions.
I have. A long time ago I bought some nasty ne2k clones that would
only work under Linux at io address 0x360 which meant that it
conflicted with the parallel port :( However I have since used a tonne
of other ne2k clones with 100% success (about $35 each).
Presently I use a 3COM 3c590 ("Vortex") which is *the best* ethernet
card I have used - every OS i've tried has detected and used it no
probs (Solaris, NT, Win95, Linux). Highly recommended.
davidwoodruff
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 102983,a3051fdc9cea5513 X-Google-Attributes: gid102983,public From: david.woodruff@divadtech.com.au (David Woodruff) Subject: Re: ethernet cards - experience? Date: 1997/05/13 Message-ID: <3377fcb9.18784280@news.divadtech.com.au> X-Deja-AN: 241230465 References: <336c3a42.2038551@news-s01.ca.us.ibm.net> <01bc5901$ab76f2f0$88e402cb@stodp200> <c1.01.2G1Q36$0z8@cretin.summerfield.network> <33748bde.112794@news-s01.ca.us.ibm.net> <524_9705130701@freeway.DIALix.oz.au> Organization: divadtech Software Engineering Newsgroups: aus.computers.linux