[lug] 3c905b-TX

[Mike Loseke]

Thus spake Bonnell, Doug:
> 
> Yes, I found a discussion site somewhere that said they did work as
> the "tulip" type NIC. The Netgear card is:
> 
> 	NETGEAR FA310TX , an auto-sensing, 100BASE-TX Fast Ethernet PCI
> Adapter.
> They run about $23.
> BTW, Linksys is offering a $10 rebate on their  "EtherFast 10/100 LAN
> Card". If these work
> with Linux, they would cost about $15 after the rebate.

 I don't have any experience with Linksys NIC's but I have one of their
8-port switches and it is *very* nice. It's unmanaged but for 8 ports of
autosensing 10-100 half/full-duplex fun for $230 from buy.com it is great.


> > -----Original Message-----
> > From:	Calvin Dodge [SMTP:caldodge at ix.netcom.com]
> > Sent:	Wednesday, September 15, 1999 9:09 AM
> > To:	lug at lug.boulder.co.us
> > Subject:	Re: [lug] 3c905b-TX
> > 
> > "Bonnell, Doug" wrote:
> > > 
> > > If your looking for something cheaper, the Netgear card is
> > > supposed to work well with Linux, They go for about $25.
> > 
> > s/is supposed to work/works/
> > 
> > At least, I've never had any problems with them under Linux (Red Hat
> > 6.0
> > recognizes them as "tulip" type NICs).


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