[NCLUG] Cheap NIC?

[Eric Brunson]

According to this page: http://www.scyld.com/network/rtl8139.html it
is an NE2000 clone, which have their problems if you have more than
one in a box, but are pretty well supported under linux.

* Rich Young (rich at RepublicOfTech.com) [020114 15:30]:
> Hey, folks-
> 	I'm looking at a network card on Cyberguys (http://www.cyberguys.com; I'd
> give you a
> direct link, but I can't tell wheat from chaff in the URL; it's product #
> 2020120 in
> their catalog) that sells for $13.83, does what I need (PCI 10/100), and
> includes an SCO
> Unix driver.  The questions: does this sound too good to be true?  And is
> KRUD likely to
> recognize this card on installation?
> 	If it's likely to be a complex install, I might be disinclined to purchase,
> as I'm
> trying to make my linux box as simple as possible in hopes that at some
> point I'll cross
> the threshold where I can actually use it effectively.  I've successfully
> done things as
> complex as compiling the tulip driver into the kernel on another (RH)
> machine, but that
> was only by grace of some really clear instructions; I am much more user
> than admin on
> *nix machines.
> 
> --Rich Young
>    rich at RepublicOfTech.com
> 
> 
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