Well supported, reliable NICs for Redhat Linux/Fedora?

[marcos colome]

I have not had any kind of problems with 3COM, D-Link or Realtek, they all do the same job even if the cost is $15.00 or $300.00 as long as they are 10/100 they work fine with
any Linux, even the Asustek or Nvidia 3Com works fine with me. The new Intel
10/100/1000 are more expensive and the transmission is 10/100 only until now. There
are a lot of technologies in the market that we do not need, they just complicate our 
life more, it is like SATA hard drives,  I prefer SCSI hard drives. Some 3 com 905 network
card they boot by itself in some types of motherboards, I have inserted it on a 64bit pci
slot and it works fine, on an NVidia chipset motherboard it wont boot by itself, but it
will boot on an SIS chipset motherboard. In some motherboard it makes cycle, but they
are very good and there are always drivers for them.

Eric Barnes <ebarnes at rationalsystemsupport.com> wrote:
Someone on the fedora-list has the same problem. Something to do with kudzu
I think. Look in that list instead of this test-list. Sorry I couldn't be
of more help.

On 11/16/03 7:40 AM, "Iain Rae" wrote:

> Klaasjan Brand wrote:
> 
>> On Sat, 2003-11-15 at 05:27, DanG wrote:
>> 
>> 
>>> Hi folks,
>>> Can I get some people¹s recommendations on PCI/PNP network
>>> cards that run very stable under Linux 2.4. I hear the Intel 10/100
>>> eepro based cards are good but are a little more costly. What about
>>> D-Link, Realtek, Linksys etc for $10-15 cards. I am only looking for
>>> 10/100 Mbit cards. Do not even begin to recommend 3com 905 based cards
>>> which is the cause of my headaches currently with Fedora J.
>>> 
>>> 
>> 
>> I'm currently using a 3c905 (rev b, combo version) with fedora without
>> any problems. I'm wondering what "headaches" it's causing you.
>> 
>> 
> see https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=98767
> 
> 
> basically the cards lock up when kudzu is run during the boot process
> and the machine has to be power-cycled to get them back into a working
> condition. It seems to be limited to the 905, the B's and C's seem to
> work fine, also the 905's themselves seem to work fine with the 2.6 kernel.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> I've kind of worked round the problem, my work has just thrown out a
> bunch of PC's with 905b's in them and I retrieved the cards from the
> dustbin,
> 
> 
>> The Realtek cards are ok, but a bit broken by design (the driver works
>> around that, but don't be surprised when your logs show "hanging
>> transceiver reset" or other vague messages.
>> 
> 
> AFAICR they're not very high performance cards either.
> 
> 
>> I've had no problems with
>> Intel and Digital cards.
>> 
>> Klaasjan
>> 
>> 
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