On 6/10/05, fredex <fredex@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: ... > I've heard people say that realtek 8139 cards aren't reliable. All I know > is I've got two of 'em in my firewall box (Smoothwall Express) and they > work great. no problems at all. One of 'em is talking to the Toshiba > cable modem and the other to the cheap offbrand 10/100 switch. both auto- > negotiated 100mbps (used to have a 10mbit hub and it autonegotiated 10mbps > then). My motherboard (Gigabyte GA7n400 Pro2) has realtek 8169 chipset > for lan and it also works fine. One of the nice things about those > chipseets is that Linux comes with the drivers built-in, so you don't > mess around with drivers whenever a kernel update comes along. ... I was at the store asking the clerk to look the product, DFE-538TX, up on d-link because I couldn't find that exact model number. duhh, he pulled up the canadian site and there it was, in all its glory: <http://www.dlink.ca/product.php?PID=124> for the driver it had "SCO unix,", or something, which made me pause. then, duhh again, it has "compatible drivers include: Linux 2.2/2.4" on the box. anyhow, I bought it for $9.98. I hope it works out of the box without recompiling the kernel, we'll see. just thought I'd share. thanks for the help, all. A friend should help with the install this evening. -Thufir
