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- From: drew@caesar.cs.colorado.edu (Drew Eckhardt)
- Subject: Re: Which EtherNet to buy?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug25.234410.29946@colorado.edu>
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- Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1992 23:44:10 GMT
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- In article <4eae7nu00aw=0JTEkk@andrew.cmu.edu> Court Demas <cd2a+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:
- >I'm looking to buy an ethernet card, and I was wondering if anybody has
- >a suggestion as to a particular one to get. I just don't want to buy
- >something that is not going to work under Linux. Have any ethernet
- >drivers been written yet?
-
- Yes, only the WD8003 is supported.
-
- >A card here at the computer star is 'SMC' or something and is pretty
- >cheep (around $200)..
-
- 1. It isn't supported.
-
- 2. $200 for an ethernet board is twice what cheap is. I've seen generic
- boards for ~$100 at swaps and mail order.
-
- >
- --
- Microsoft is responsible for propogating the evils it calls DOS and Windows,
- IBM for AIX (appropriately called Aches by those having to administer it), but
- marketing's sins don't come close to those of legal departments.
- Boycott AT&T for their absurd anti-BSDI lawsuit.
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