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Ethernet adapters vary greatly in performance. In general the newer the
design the better. Some very old cards like the 3C501 are only useful
because they can be found in junk heaps for $5 a time. Be careful with
clones, not all are good clones and bad clones often cause erratic
lockups under Linux.
ISA
- 3Com 3C501 - ``avoid like the plague''
- 3Com 3C503, 3C505, 3C507, 3C509 (ISA) / 3C579 (EISA)
- AMD LANCE (79C960) / PCnet-ISA/PCI (AT1500, HP J2405A, NE1500/NE2100)
- AT&T GIS WaveLAN
- Allied Telesis AT1700
- Cabletron E21xx
- DEC DEPCA and EtherWORKS
- HP PCLAN (27245 and 27xxx series)
- HP PCLAN PLUS (27247B and 27252A)
- Intel EtherExpress
- NE2000/NE1000 (be careful with clones)
- Racal-Interlan NI5210 (i82586 Ethernet chip)
- Racal-Interlan NI6510 (am7990 lance chip) - doesn't work with more
than 16 megs RAM
- PureData PDUC8028, PDI8023
- SMC Ultra
- Schneider & Koch G16
- Western Digital WD80x3
EISA and onboard controllers
- Ansel Communications AC3200 EISA
- Apricot Xen-II
- Zenith Z-Note / IBM ThinkPad 300 built-in adapter
Pocket and portable adapters
- AT-Lan-Tec/RealTek parallel port adapter
- D-Link DE600/DE620 parallel port adapter
Slotless
- SLIP/CSLIP/PPP (serial port)
- PLIP (parallel port, using ``LapLink cable'' or bi-directional cable)
ARCnet
- works with all ARCnet cards
ISDN
-
Diehl SCOM card
- Sonix PC Volante
only in asynchronous mode, not useful for some applications
- Teles ISDN card
Amateur radio cards
- Ottawa PI2
- Most generic 8530 based HDLC boards
No support for the PMP/Baycom board
PCMCIA cards
- 3Com 3C589
- Accton EN2212 EtherCard
- D-Link DE650
- IBM Credit Card Adapter
- IC-Card
- Kingston KNE-PCM/M
- LANEED Ethernet
- Linksys EthernetCard
- Network General ``Sniffer''
- Novell NE4100
- Thomas-Conrad Ethernet
- possibly more
Token Ring
- Xircom adapters are not supported.
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