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Old 04-05-2002, 07:11 AM   #1
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What nic card to buy?

Guys the nic card has crapped out in my Linux box. Any suggestions on a card that is supported my multiple Linux distors, Mandrake, Redhat and Slackware are what I have now.
 
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card support is irrelevant of the distro, it depends on the kernel more. The easiest cards i've found is just using any generic RTL8139 based card. the support is fine. same pretty much goes for the RTL8129 (NE2000 compatible) chipset, but i prefer the former, using the 8139too driver
 
  


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