On Wed, 2005-06-08 at 01:22 -0700, Kam Leo wrote: > 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. One Realtek chipset card I got from a dlink fudged up my PC's network. Stalled everything. Had to troubleshoot for a couple of hours before deciding so change the card and then everything went OK. -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 1.5GB RAM 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 17:56:00 up 6:08, 6 users, load average: 0.94, 1.09, 0.92