i'm going to buy a PMCI network card with a RJ45 soket to build up a small lan. i have selected the D-Link 10/100 DFE-670TXD model. i have a notebook fujitsu-siemens c series P3 600mhz 64mb ram. does anybody knows if there are risk or problem lurking?

I don't know if your going to have problems with your lap top, but I am also looking for a simialar card and acording to the list of supported cards your card is supported. good luck!

I have a DFE-670TXD card that I use with my 366MHz Thinkpad 600E. The D-Link card works great, I have never had any problems whatsoever with it, and it provides great value for the money. However, you may want to be aware of the fact that this is a 16bit PC-Card, not a modern Cardbus design. In day-to-day use this means nothing more than that its performance is not on par with a PCI or 32bit Cardbus design - even as the DFE-670TXD is listed as a 10/100Mbit Ethernet card you will probably never see transfer speeds better than 1MByte/s, which pretty much equals the speed of a 10Mbit network.

But unless you are going to spend your days transferring CD images or other huge files, it shouldn't be a problem. You won't notice any slowdown whatsoever in browsing the net or downloading files from the Internet, unless you have an Internet connection faster than 10Mbit... So my verdict is: Get it. It's cheap and it works beautifully in Linux.

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