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Name: Lee Nutter Date: March 22, 2001 at 21:28:31 Pacific
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Intel etherexpress 100b Nic works well for me :)
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Name: James Wolf Date: March 23, 2001 at 00:48:21 Pacific
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You will probably find that most NIC's work... check your documentation and if you can't see anything of value anything 3com will be most likely be supported (99% sure on that:)
The 3com 3C905B 10/100Mbit is a nice card, but a little expensive. And because the Cable Modem is probably only 10Mbit, a card capable of doing 100Mbit is a little overkill. There are a lot of cheap 10Mbit ethernet cards, but most of them are slow and take a lot of CPU power. At least that is my experience.
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Response Number 4
Name: robbo2 Date: March 23, 2001 at 08:54:38 Pacific
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stay away from plug n play NIC's such as the realtek 80190 you can get them to work but there a bit tricky
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Response Number 5
Name: cybohazard Date: March 23, 2001 at 21:30:26 Pacific
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i use smc cards, since smc package turbo nix with them ;)
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Name: skid Date: March 29, 2001 at 16:01:34 Pacific
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My lynksys Etherfast cards and hub came with TurboLinux server 6.0 lite.
I use startek (realtek 8139's) on several of our machines. We have 42 plus 3 servers at the moment of which 19 have these NIC's. I don't have speed, overhead or "flaky" problems at all and for 25bucks, can't go wrong.
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