On Wed, 2005-06-08 at 07:46 +0100, THUFIR HAWAT wrote: > I urgently need a second ethernet (RJ-45 telephone-looking type) NIC > in my computer, which is about a year old, el cheapo but with USB 2.0, > so decent for my needs (sorry, don't have mother board details at the > moment). > > the local store is willing to install a SMC one for a good price. my > only concern is the brand. ethernet is very well understood (meaning > old technology) and I just need plain-vanilla, but I don't want to > have to fiddle with anything, configuring hardware or whatever, if the > hardware doesn't run well under linux. > > does the brand matter, or will anything that says "ethernet" fit the > bill? 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. 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)
