[ILUG] [OT] Network Cards

[david_hamilton3 at hp.com]

Has anyone tried these:
http://www.insight.com/cgi-bin/bp/253730628/uk/products/3cm3c905co.html
3Com 3C905C's?
They appear to be quite good value at £35 + VAT each.... even sterling....
	David.

-----Original Message-----
From: paul.jakma at compaq.com [mailto:paul.jakma at compaq.com]
Sent: 08 March 2000 11:45
To: paul.jakma at compaq.com; lbedford at wbtsystems.com
Cc: HAMILTON, DAVID /HP-Ireland,om5; ilug at linux.ie
Subject: FW: RE: [ILUG] [OT] Network Cards


On Wed, 8 Mar 2000, Liam Bedford wrote:

> Be careful with the Netgear 10/100 cards. The first 3 revisisions
> (up to C) are based on tulip chips, but revision D is a liteon chip.
> This may or may not work, depending on the driver version, and the
> color of the coffee you're drinking, but it's iffy at the best of
> times.

he claims to support the Lite-On tulip clone. Also, note that for a long
time the tulip driver included with linux wasn't updated, even though
donald had newer versions.

i think 2.2.12/13 or so finally inlcuded donalds latest tulip driver.

-paul.


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