RE: cheap NICs

["Dave Grummer" <dave@example.com>]

Dear Hector,

I bought a Corega dongle less LAN card and it works great with RH 6.2J.
Corega's web site has easy to follow instructions for installing the card
for Linux. The product's box also has the "Runs on Linux" logo on the box.

Good luck...

Best Regards,
Dave Grummer

-----Original Message-----
From: Hector Akamine [mailto:akamine@example.com]
Sent: Monday, July 23, 2001 9:26 PM
To: tlug@example.com
Cc: akamine@example.com
Subject: cheap NICs


Hi,

I think this question comes from time to time to the list, but here we
go again (I searched the archive, but couldn't find something that helps
me [1] ) :

How good is the support for "cheap" network cards in linux? We plan to
buy a new PC, and initially thought to use a 3COM card, but with cards
with less than one-third of the price (Corega, Netgear, Planex, I/O Data)
(prices from tzone.com) I think in giving any one of them a chance. Is
there any card model (or maker) from which I should stay away? (There
are also big differences in price between cards from the same
manufacturer. Why? ) We plan to use RH 7.x

Thanks in advance


[1] By the way, the search engine of the TLUG archive seems not to be
working
correctly. For example, entering "gnome" returns "no matches".

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