[oclug] nic recommendations

[Pat Gilliland]

I have 3 dlinks one 528 and 2 530's.  All 3 work very well especially
for the price.  Mandrake 7.1 and 8.0 picked up them up without problem.

Problems: on both the 530's, the rj45 socket no longer holds the cable
connector securely.  There were probably under 30 connect/disconnects
before the sockets failed.  The cards still work, just don't wiggle the
cables ;).    Mandrake 8.0 on an ancient ibm PI pukes when 2 530's are
in machine.  I believe its a scripting, harddrake or bios issue rather
than a dlink problem since Mandrake 7.1 sees them both. 

en916 at ncf.ca wrote:
> 
> 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.
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> Roger Messier
> en916 at ncf.ca
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