Subject: Re: DEC hardware question
To: Chris Rupnik <crupnik@videotron.ca>
From: Jochen Kmietsch <jochen.kmietsch@tu-clausthal.de>
List: port-alpha
Date: 07/18/2002 20:01:33
Hello!

On Thu, 18 Jul 2002, Chris Rupnik wrote:

> I'll second Jason's email. I have a 3com 3c905TX working beautifully in my
> lowly axppci33. It is must faster than the realtek based (DFE-538TX) that
> was in there before.

Well, there are network-cards, and there are realtek (and ne2000 and
clones, for that matter) cards.
http://www.fefe.de/linuxeth/realtek.txt is worth reading, I especially
like the "The RealTek 8139 PCI NIC redefines the meaning of 'low end.'"
sentence :)

Jochen
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