--- Kinjal Sonpal kinjalsonpal@softhome.net wrote:
You can get much cheaper cards from D-Link,
Surecom,
Compex, etc. These cards are basically NE2000 PCI clones, and as such are technically inferior to
the
3Com and other more expensive cards in areas like
PIO
vs. DMA, etc., but are very much Value for Money.
I
just bought a Surecom NE2000 PCI compatible LAN
card
for one of my home machines for just 525/-!
Are these cards PNP ?
AFAIK, yes. generally, you can expect PCI cards to be PNP. If you're getting one of the NE2000 PCI compatible cards, you can just fire up linuxconf as root, go into networking->clients, and set it up as eth0, with the driver set to ne2k-pci (the driver is ne2k-pci.o), so that even if there is some problem with autodetection, you can still set things up in a fairly easy way.
Rgds,
Krishnan
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