Forum OpenACS Q&A: Response to Wanted: Co-operative ethernet card

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Posted by Don Baccus on
I also am a 3Comm fan.  I own six of them, with five currently in use, mostly 3c509 10MBS cards.  The last two cost me $25 each (they used to be expensive, but 10MBS and ISA aren't "in" things).

They work great with RH 6.2 but you need to add the line "alias eth0 3c509" to your conf.modules file.

I think the PCI cards are autodetected but don't remember for sure.

I've never had a problem with any of my 3Comm NICs, so I've never bothered buying anything else, except for my LinkSys PCMIA Combo for my laptop.  That's also cheap (about $25 at Fry's).  Linux autodetects TP or BNC which is handy as my home LAN here in Oregon's been around for awhile and is BNC, while my girlfriend's computer in Boston has a TP connector.  Linux also figured out what it was without any help at all, while I had to load the driver back when the laptop ran Windows...