[plug] Sound or Network Card

[Pottz]

Could someone please email me directly about how to take myself off this
list.

Thankyou,

--pottz


----- Original Message -----
From: Jamie Moir <moir at opera.iinet.net.au>
To: <plug at linux.org.au>
Sent: Thursday, September 23, 1999 7:11 PM
Subject: Re: [plug] Sound or Network Card


>
>
> On Thu, 23 Sep 1999, Nick Bannon wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Sep 23, 1999 at 04:40:41PM +0800, Jamie Moir wrote:
>
> > > behaved, even under windows heh
> >
> > Wow. ::-)
>
> yeah, it makes me happy/not have to cry at least  :)
>
> > I consistently have real problems installing recent network cards under
> > Windows. Win95 OSR2, cheap crappy cards and good name brand cards. All
> > PnP, all with latest downloaded drivers, they just require an inordinate
> > amount of fiddling to get running. Sometimes nothing I do works and then
> > I move it from one slot to another, it magically Plugs and Prays again
> > and then it works. All through this, the vendor diagnostics program
> > insists everything is fine even though nothing else will have a bar of
it.
>
> tell me about it, i just sent a laptop off that belonged to work as the
> pos was just giving me the shits about pcmcia, its all fine, it all looks
> ok, NOTHING WORKS, some poor sucker is fixing it for money, i just couldnt
> be bothered 'facing the taint' anymore today :)
>
> > If I do a Linux floppy boot just to test the hardware it invariably
> > works perfectly.
> >
> > <sigh>
>
> heh, yup :)
>
> > 3c905 (or 3c905B or 3c905C). Always easy to slip up on those 3Com model
> > numbers. ::-)
>
> just replaced a 3509b with a netgear with a real tulip in it :)
>
> > > ive heard very mixed reports about reliability under linux with these
> > > cards, id personally be quite cautious about touching one
> >
> > I've seen a few very very solid production servers using them with no
> > worries at all. Mind you, same thing goes for the tulips and at half
> > the price, the choice is clear. ::-)
>
> ok, please allow me to place the spanner in the works, we have a sco
> [ughugh] server at work, with a netgear tulip real tulip it ran like a
> dog, with a 3com905 in its GREAT, well as good as sco ever gets mutter
>
> Jamie
>
>