[GLLUG] PC Card eth0 Recommendations

[Paul Donahue]

I must say that I agree with Paul, the realports are excellent cards. I have the 10/100 combo 56K/Cellular modem model. As long as I have it startup directly from card services it knows to take com2 and leave com1 open. They are a little more pricey (at least the combos) than your standard generic card, but I feel that it's worth the extra couple dollars. Having broken 2 dongled cards myself I spent more over the time of replacements that I would have with it initally. 

enough of my rambling...

paul


>>> "Melson, Paul" <PMelson@sequoianet.com> 04/02/02 02:00PM >>>
I like the Xircom RealPort NICs, personally.  Mostly because there's no
dongle to lose or break, and they are well supported under Linux.  I
have had problems with the RealPort combo cards (NIC + fax/modem)
stealing control of /dev/ttyS0 (COM1) and preventing the regular serial
port from working.

PaulM

-----Original Message-----
From: Brian Hoort [mailto:hoortbri@msu.edu] 
Sent: Tuesday, April 02, 2002 1:32 PM
To: GLLUG Post
Subject: [GLLUG] PC Card eth0 Recommendations


I'm looking for an inexpensive PCMCIA NIC for my old GNU/Linux laptop.
My 
primary concerns are that it be inexpensive, and easily used on Linux.
What 
do you folks recommend?

Thanks.



-- 
Brian Hoort

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