Re: Network card recommendation

From: Rogério Brito (rbrito_at_ime.usp.br)
Date: 08/16/05

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    On Aug 16 2005, Hans du Plooy wrote:
    > I'll add my voice for this, the Realtek chips (at least the 100mbit
    > ones) are rubbish. They don't perform well, they're incredibly
    > sensitive to interference, and they have a habit of not lasting long.

    In the mean time, Jeff Garzik (the maintainer of many kernel NIC drivers)
    said recently on the lkml that Realtek 8169 is one of his preferred and
    better supported cards in Linux, especially due to the supply of
    documentation.

    http://lkml.org/lkml/2002/11/18/205

    Hope this helps, Rogério. 

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