On Fri, Oct 20, 2006 at 11:18:01AM -0700, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote:
> One word of caution, don't be too disappointed if a modern NIC doesn't
> work in that very old mobo.  My first x86 computer, a PPRO-150 on in
> an Intel VS440FX mobo ...

Does that motherboard have 64Bit and/or 66MHz PCI slots?

> ... doesn't recognize a Linksys EG-1032 (a $25 Gigabit NIC pci card).

That's why you shouldn't buy RealTek network cards. ;-)

But seriously:
I didn't have any problem with an Intel PRO1000/MT card in a Tadpole Voyager.
And the PCI chipset in that machine (same as in Sun's ULTRA5) is probably as
old as the Intel VS440FX.

	Kind regards

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Matthias Scheler                                  http://zhadum.org.uk/