Re: Network Card & Latest Version.

[Atul Chitnis <achitnis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 3 Jun 1999, Muthu wrote:

> 	I am planning to buy a network card for my machine running Slackware Linux
> 3.5 . I have a 486 machine with an ISA(No PCI Slots) Non PNP motherboard (
> EXP4044 Green with Award BIOS). Please suggest me a good Network Card with
> a reasonable Price tag.

Any NE2000 clone, I guess. Make sure it is jumperable to IO/IRQ settings,
or has a program that sets the IO/IRQ in the EEPROM/NVRAM. And make sure
that it is not set to the default IRQ 3 (all NE2000 cards have this
default) - change it to IRQ 10 or some similar IRQ *not* in use.

Atul



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