[plug] Sound or Network Card

[Jamie Moir]

On Thu, 23 Sep 1999, Nick Bannon wrote:

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

that's a toughy, i have 12 netgears at work, some are real decs, some are
liteon clones, they all had the same model number, they are all quite well
behaved, even under windows heh
 
> 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.

i debianed a box and the only advice i got as to what the card was was
that it was 'an expensive dlink with a dec or some crew chipset on it', it
detected as a dec, and ran fine w/the tulip module

> 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.

ahuh :)

> 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)

ive heard very mixed reports about reliability under linux with these
cards, id personally be quite cautious about touching one

laters,

jamie