On 6/8/05, THUFIR HAWAT <hawat.thufir@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 6/8/05, Michael A. Peters <mpeters@xxxxxxx> wrote: > ... > > I have yet to run across anything that is 10/100 that is a PCI card that > > doesn't just work - but if you want to be sure, Linksys cards (afaik) > > always work. > > if it's 10/100 PCI it should just work, but linksys is better, ok. > > then below, it doesn't work automatically. onboard means integrated > with the main board? > > > Sometimes onboard ethernet doesn't always work - IE the onboard nic on > > my nforce2 board (it works now, thanks to reverse engineering) but if > > you get a Linksys 10/100 NIC it will cost you maybe $10.00 in the U.S. > > (are you in the US??) and is very easy to install yourself - you don't > > need to pay a labor fee to have it installed (where I use to work, as a > > hardware tech, we'd charge $45.00 for that - it took us maybe 5 minutes > > to put the card in, then just booting to make sure the card was > > seen/install drivers - not really worth the expense imho) > > > > > > > > > you echo my preconceptions in all regards but one. here in canada, > the smc card, for example is twenty including install. I'm > mechanically, err, challenged?, so I'll bite the bullet on the > inflated labor fees ;) > > I'll check it out tomorrow, but I might pay the five or ten canadian > more for the linksys card because it's "better," or at least has that > reputation, which you emphasized. however, I failed to mention that > cost is definitely a factor, too, even though this is really peanuts > because I'm, err, counting peanuts. > > -Thufir > The 10/100 NICs with RJ45 connector are commodity items. Any "whitebox" card with a Realtek RT8139 chipset should satisfy your needs. You will be wasting your money for a Linksys NIC unless it has special feature(s) that you need and the other cards do not provide.
