Am Mi, den 18.02.2004 schrieb Alexander Dalloz um 15:28: > Am Mi, den 18.02.2004 schrieb Antoniak Adam um 12:31: > > Hi everybody, > > > > I've been using Red Hat 9.0 for a few months and consider moving to Fedora. > > I also would like to change my internet provider to get a faster connection (still using dial up modem :-( ). > > I'm considering D-Link DFE-528TX NEC. Any problems known with this particular card? > > Googled the net but didn't find any final statements. > > Will it be automatically detected or I will need additional drivers? > > As far as I know it uses an RTL8139C chipset. > > Had any of u good or bad experience with this card? > > > > ADAM > > NICs with Realtek chipset are very low price cards. I do not recommend > using such cards in machines with much traffic as the chipset is causing > a high CPU load at high traffic rates. If you take it for 10MBit DSL > connection this is not a factor. Behind this the type of NIC is mostly > uncomplicated and should be autodetected and supported by the kernel > module 8139too. > > Alexander We had some problems with Samba and a Realtek 8139D but the 8139C seems to be ok. Alexander
