[wplug] Which network card?

Tim Lesher tim at lesher.ws
Fri May 9 10:37:53 EDT 2003


On Fri, May 09, 2003 at 11:24:12AM -0400, John Strange wrote:
> 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.

I agree.  That being said, I've been using the DLink brand,
tulip-based network cards for a while at home and at work.  They seem
reliable (not to mention cheap).

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Tim Lesher <tim at lesher.ws>
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