Re: [Sheflug] NICs

[Barrie Bremner <nospam [at] ecosse.net>]

Sammy Redshaw wrote:

> 
> That what i am worried about i want a hardware nic not a soft nic
> the one that i've seen seem to harware nics from a companie called linksys and
> yes they do use the tulip driver for there card

 A soft NIC? Eh?

 Sammy, you do seem to be interested in the NE2000 NICs. Go with them if
you are looking for something cheap and well supported.
 I've also got a few 3Com 509 cards (erm...since this morning, it's now
about 8 or them :-) they don't go wrong either.
 3Com 509's are available secondhand everywhere for about 1-3 quid
each...

 These are all 10Mb/s cards. I'm not sure if you can get 10/100 Mb/s
NE2000s.

> >
> >         As for hubs, I am not aware of any having Linux support or
> > otherwise, but that's because I only use cheap crappy ones. Any should
> > be fine, unless of course you're setting up a rendering farm in  your
> > bedroom (not a good idea, too noisy, but it does away with the need of
> > central heating!).
> 
> > Could do with the extra heat my radiators are always locking up with air
> 
> and it get cold  in here!

 As already mentioned, hubs are a piece of standalone hardware - plug
'em in, and that's it. No "Designed for Windoze" crap.
 I've got an Intel InBusiness 5 port hub that I got from dabs.com - £30
at the time.
You can probably get slightly cheaper, but I was happy to pay an extra
£5 for the Intel kit.

 My room currently has two machines - one you can hear from down the
stairs. Another 3 or 4 machines are going to be added over the weekend -
I'm buying those P75's and 486's I was going on about...

 
> Noise i can sleep through a nuclear blast I have loss of hearing so i don't
> hear a damm thing in the middle of the night!

...but fortunately I also have duff hearing :-)

 Stick my left ear to the pillow and all I get is a soothing murmer from
the boxen.

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