Well supported, reliable NICs for Redhat Linux/Fedora?

Alan Cox alan at redhat.com
Mon Nov 17 21:59:57 UTC 2003


>             Can I get some people's 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 :-).

I've taken to using realtek stuff when performance is not critical. The
905 problem is something fedora related, possibly acpi triggered. If you
chkconfig kudzu off then your 905 will work fine





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