Free (as in beer) NICs (Was: [ale] Multi-port NIC cards?)

[Jhubbs at niit.com (Jeff Hubbs)]

Joe - 

I think you're right about the chipset.  I wish vendors wouldn't do that.  

FWIW, on the box, a claim of Linux support is made.

- Jeff

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joseph A. Knapka [mailto:jknapka at earthlink.net]
> Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2001 4:48 PM
> To: Jeff Hubbs
> Cc: Jerry Swann; Sage; ale at ale.org
> Subject: Re: Free (as in beer) NICs (Was: [ale] Multi-port NIC cards?)
> 
> 
> Jeff Hubbs wrote:
> > 
> > Someone might have said something on here already, but it 
> bears repeating
> > that Circuit City is having a triple rebate on the D-Link 
> DFE-530TX 10/100
> > NIC (I think that's the right model)
> 
> DFE-530TX+
> 
> Note that cards with a chip labelled "10038C" use a different
> chipset (or something) than those with a chip labelled "10038",
> even though they're both sold as model DFE-530TX+. I have several
> of the earlier "10038" cards that I'm using with rtl8139 drivers,
> but the rtl8139 driver doesn't work with the "10038C" version
> on OpenBSD. I haven't tried it under Linux yet.
> 
> -- Joe
> 
> > that brings the cost to just the sales
> > tax.  $19.99, $5 Instant Rebate, and two subsequent 
> fill-out-and-mail-stuff
> > rebates.
> > 
> > I went ahead and got one in advance of a need I'm sure I'll have.
> > 
> > - Jeff
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