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I remember trying to get NICs to work in Linux and the best advice was usually “just try the 3c509 driver”.
by chasd00 4y ago
I remember trying to get NICs to work in Linux and the best advice was usually “just try the 3c509 driver”.
- xbar 4y agoPractically a mantra.
- bombcar 4y agoIt was well known when I started that you got a card that would work with that (and later for gigabit it was e1000).
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- xen2xen1 4y agoSimilar to "try the HP 4si driver" for printers?
- jabl 4y agoI remember when I bought my first fast ethernet card, there was some Linux HOWTO that discussed various ethernet NIC's, and crucially, their Linux drivers in excruciating detail. And the takeaway was that if you had a choice, pick either 3com 5xx(?) or Intel card. The 3com card was slightly cheaper at the local computer shop, so that's what I ended up with (595 Vortex, maybe?).
- IYasha 4y agoYeah, I had gold-plated 100Mb 3Com cards and they were the best. (something-905-series?) With full-duplex, hardware offloading, good drivers. I still have one lying somewhere. )
- hinkley 4y agoAs a poor college student I scavenged 3c509 cards to build a computer network in an apartment I shared with two other chronic internet users. That was right about the time someone has solved a bug with certain revisions of the card behaving differently. So suddenly the availability jumped considerably.