new to linux and networking

[Alexander Appel]

Am Mi, den 18.02.2004 schrieb Alexander Dalloz um 15:28:
> Am Mi, den 18.02.2004 schrieb Antoniak Adam um 12:31:
> > Hi everybody,
> > 
> > I've been using Red Hat 9.0 for a few months and consider moving to Fedora.
> > I also would like to change my internet provider to get a faster connection (still using dial up modem :-( ).
> > I'm considering D-Link DFE-528TX NEC. Any problems known with this particular card?
> > Googled the net but didn't find any final statements.
> > Will it be automatically detected or I will need additional drivers?
> > As far as I know it uses an RTL8139C chipset.
> > Had any of u good or bad experience with this card?
> > 
> > ADAM
> 
> NICs with Realtek chipset are very low price cards. I do not recommend
> using such cards in machines with much traffic as the chipset is causing
> a high CPU load at high traffic rates. If you take it for 10MBit DSL
> connection this is not a factor. Behind this the type of NIC is mostly
> uncomplicated and should be autodetected and supported by the kernel
> module 8139too.
> 
> Alexander

We had some problems with Samba and a Realtek 8139D but the 8139C 
seems to be ok.

Alexander