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From: Gerald R. Jensen
Date: Sat, 03 Jul 1999 00:00

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Cheap netcards will work, but why screw around when you can pick up decent
(3Com 3C509) cards for $49 (http://www.cpu4u.com/net.html)?

Pascal Gienger <finesse@gmx.de> wrote in message
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> In article <3779BCB1.EBB4A63F@euenet.uni-duisburg.de>, Joerg Honerla
wrote:
> >Verheijen wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I want to buy two network cards to connect my home computers.
> >> I think 10Mb will be fast enough.
> >> What is a cheap and 100% supported card for Linux?
> >>
> >> Thanks in advance.
> >>
> >> Wouter Verheijen
> >> verheije@worldonline.nl
> >
> >I have good success with a lot of card which have the Realtek 8029 chip
> >onboard. They all NE2000 compatible.
>
> If you don't mind having >1000 Interrupts/sec while transferring a huge
> file...
>
> PCI ne2000-clones are a little bit better than ISA ones (wait state
et.al.).
>
> But why not spending 20$ more and buy something useful?
> I think the kingston ones (dec2114* clones) are rather cheap and good
> for PCI. For ISA I would recommend some SMC ones with 16k memory mapping.
>
> Pascal
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From: "Gerald R. Jensen" <grjensen@centuryinter.net>
Subject: Re: Home networking for Linux
Date: 1999/07/03
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