Re: Wanted PCMCIA ethernet card

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From: Dave
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 00:00

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Recently, on Thu, 19 Oct 2000 16:12:37 +0100, Mark A Miles
<maxm@tardis.ed.ac.uk> typed some or all of:

>On Wed, 18 Oct 2000, Dave wrote:
>
>> I got mine in Ideal Computing for less than 50 quid. That was some
>> time ago - they might be even cheaper now. They usually come with an
>> adapter for BNC and category 5 (rj?? telephone type) connectors. 
>
>Be careful, though. Ideal is a (very) good firm, but we got one today that
>doesn't seem to work under Linux. It says "unsupported card in socket #0"
>
They do claim to be Linux-friendly. Their website is at:
http://www.ideal-computing.co.uk/. I know a certain web design / web
hosting company who buy their hardware there because they use Linux
for their servers in preference to Microsoft. And I've seen Ideal
staff members posting and responding in local newsgroup(s)...

I, for my sins, am condemned to MS Windows ;o)

regards Dave.
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Subject: Re: Wanted PCMCIA ethernet card
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