[oclug] nic recommendations

[Ben Hall]

I think the DLink 530TX uses the realtek 8139 chipset.  If so, it's great.

BTW, I picked up a Belkin 10/100 PCI NIC at Compucenter in the Rideau
center.  It was $20 and an RTL8139 card.  Works great in every OS I've
ever tried, and you can't beat $20. (At least, I haven't been able to.) 
The also had 10mbit PCMCIA D-Link NICs for $25.  I don't know why it was
so cheap, usually mall computer stores cost more...
Hope that helps.  Cheer,

Ben


> I'll be setting up a small lan soon, so I need to buy a nic for my
> computer.
> I'm currently looking at the D-Link DFE-530TX (~$25) and I was
> wondering if
> anyone has had any experience with these cards.  If so, were they good,
> bad, other, ...?  I'm using RH 7.3 with the stock kernel.
>
> Thanks for any info.
> --
> Roger Messier
> en916 at ncf.ca
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