[wplug] Which network card?

[John Strange]

I've had tons of problems with the generic network chipsets such as the
tulip or the the realtek.  Simply being that lots of manufactures OEM
the chip and then make small changes in it.  With all the *different*
little revisions that are floating around it's gotta be hard to write
drivers for them all and test all the diffeerent little revisions
floating around.

Which is why I tend to stick with name brand cards since they tend to be
a little less painful.  This is just my experience with network cards
under linux after about 6 years now :)

- John
On Fri, 2003-05-09 at 10:47, Rick Smith wrote:
> On Fri, May 09, 2003 at 10:03:47AM -0400, John Harrold wrote:
> > i've had problems with nics that have realtek chipsets (i think netgear
> > uses these), and i would avoid these.
> 
> I'd like to hear more, as I'm looking at getting a laptop with a 
> RTL 8139.
> 
> Was it flaky hardware or ?
> Was it driver problems?  In the words of Donald Becker:
> 
> from: http://www.scyld.com/network/rtl8139.html
> > The 8139too driver is based almost entirely on the on the 8139 driver
> > written by Donald Becker. It has a few operational changes, most of
> > which are flawed or pointless. 
> 
> I'll certainly like to steer clear of the flawed and pointless :)
> 
> -- Rick
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