Re: Which Ethernet card?

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From: Manfred Bartz
Date: Fri, 21 Mar 1997 00:00

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nick@zeta.org.au (Nick Andrew) writes:

> In <5gqf4r$p0o$1@otis.netspace.net.au> mheath@netspace.net.au (Mark Heath) writes:
> >If you are after cheap cards you'd probably get an NE2000 clone. 
> 
> They don't work. NE2000 for some reason is an unreliable card
> interface.

I have got 3 NE3000 clones - no problems.

However, Linux has difficulty detecting NE2000 cards, but that is
easily fixed with `append="ether=11,0x240,eth0"' (or whatever is
appropriate for you) in lilo.conf

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Manfred Bartz <mbartz@werple.net.au>

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