[plug] Sound or Network Card

[Nick Bannon]

On Thu, Sep 23, 1999 at 01:00:51PM +0800, Jamie Moir wrote:
[...]
> quite a few makers are using decs or dec clones and they seem ok, dlink
> and netgear spring to mind

Any specific comments on the Netgears - cost, where to buy, model, any
issues, etc?

I didn't think the D-links were Tulips - a popular cheap card is the
DFE-530TX, which uses a via-rhine driver. Seems to be working mostly OK
for me. They should be under $70 tax-inc.

The tulips have had an excellent and well deserved reputation for years,
but it's often hard to track down exactly what chipset is on a given card.

The 3Coms are apparently very good too, and the recent announcements
about them opening up some GPL'ed Linux drivers makes me want to look
at them closer, but they're not cheap by comparison to the Dlinks and
at least some of the tulips. (~$150 tax inc? for a 3c509)

BTW - this is all for 10/100BaseT cards. There's almost no point in
buying a 10Mbit-only card these days unless you pick it up for 50 cents
in a garage sale. <grin>

Nick.

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