HP & Compaq

From: Douglas Quebbeman <dhquebbeman_at_theestopinalgroup.com>
Date: Thu Sep 6 07:20:49 2001

> > They BOUGHT it...BOUGHT != KILLED. Now Tulip chips have Intel logos
> > on them. At least I'm pretty sure I've seen some...it may have been a
> > nightmare or something. ;)
>
> Those el-cheapo Linksys cards that I like because the newer ones rarely
> fail on me and when they do they are cheap to replace, are Tulip. And
> they're faster because of it.

I hope you don't mean the EtherFast 10/100 LNE100TX cards... they are
*way* too sensitive to noisy LANs... I've had to pull several and replace
them with either Intel Pro/100 adapters, or drop back to some old 3Com
3c509 10Mbps combo cards... Of course, YMMV, etc...

-dq
Received on Thu Sep 06 2001 - 07:20:49 BST