thedark
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Joined: 30 Jul 2005
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 Posted: Thu Aug 04, 2005 5:59 pm Post subject: What card should I buy for Linux? |
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The answer to this question depends heavily on exactly what you intend on doing with your net connection, and how much traffic it will see.
If you only expect a single user to be doing the occasional ftp session or WWW connection, then even an old 8 bit ISA card will probably keep you happy.
If you intend to set up a server, and you require the CPU overhead of moving data over the network to be kept to a minimum, you probably want to look at one of the PCI cards that uses a chip with bus-mastering capapbility, such as the DEC tulip (21xxx) chip, or the AMD PCnet-PCI chip.
If you fall somewhere in the middle of the above, then any one of the low cost PCI or 16 bit ISA cards with stable drivers will do the job for you. |
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