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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. Read the Ethernet HOWTO for full detailed descriptions
of various cards.
Ethernet
- 3Com 3C501 - ``avoid like the plague''
- 3Com 3C503, 3C505, 3C507, 3C509/3C509B (ISA) / 3C579 (EISA)
- AMD LANCE (79C960) / PCnet-ISA/PCI (AT1500, HP J2405A, NE1500/NE2100)
- AT&T GIS WaveLAN
- Allied Telesis AT1700
- Ansel Communications AC3200 EISA
- Apricot Xen-II
- Cabletron E21xx
- DEC DE425 (EISA) / DE434/DE435 (PCI)
- DEC DEPCA and EtherWORKS
- HP PCLAN (27245 and 27xxx series)
- HP PCLAN PLUS (27247B and 27252A)
- Intel EtherExpress
- Intel EtherExpress Pro
- NE2000/NE1000 (be careful with clones)
- New Media Etherne
- Racal-Interlan NI5210 (i82586 Ethernet chip)
- Racal-Interlan NI6510 (am7990 lance chip) - doesn't work with more than 16 megs RAM
- PureData PDUC8028, PDI8023
- SEEQ 8005
- SMC Ultra
- Schneider & Koch G16
- Western Digital WD80x3
- 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)
- EQL (serial line load balancing)
- PLIP (parallel port) - using ``LapLink cable'' or bi-directional cable
ARCnet
- works with all ARCnet cards
Token Ring
Ethernet
ISDN
Amateur radio cards
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
ATM
- Xircom adapters are not supported.
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