[plug] Sound or Network Card

[Jon L. Miller]

You can purchase Netgear components at JMills in Balcatta, or Express
Data on Pier St if you are a reseller go to JMills, if not call Express
Data.


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On 9/23/99, at 4:40 PM, Jamie Moir  wrote: 

>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

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