NIC cards? (WAS:Re: PowerMac 5400 as server/gateway?)

[Robert Serphillips]

Just bought a D-Link (DFE-530TX) card a Fry's for about $15. Works
fine. Had to set

CONFIG_NET_PCI=y
.
.
# CONFIG_8139CP is not set
CONFIG_8139TOO=y
# CONFIG_8139TOO_PIO is not set
# CONFIG_8139TOO_TUNE_TWISTER is not set
# CONFIG_8139TOO_8129 is not set
# CONFIG_8139_NEW_RX_RESET is not set


in the .config file and recompile the kernel.
No issues, works great for a cheap card.

-Rob

On Wed, 5 Jun 2002 10:52:21 -0700 (PDT)
Jay Savage <daggerquill@mac.com> wrote:

>  
> On Wednesday, June 05, 2002, at 03:58PM, Romeyn Prescott
> <prescor@digirom.potsdam.edu> wrote:
> 
> >Somewhen around 9:50 AM -0400 6/5/02, a person believing themself
> >to be Sam Moore scribbled:
> 
> <snip>
> 
> >>According to Everymac, there aren't any slots free on this
> >machine:>
> >>http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/powermac/stats/powermac_540
> >0_120.html
> >
> >That's not how *I* read that page.
> >
> 
> <snip>
> 
> >Having gutted it I can tell you that it has ONE PCI slot which may
> >or may not be vacant.  So theoretically you could have a card in
> >the CommSlot (CS-II) and one in the PCI slot and it should function
> >as you'd like.
> >
> >...ROMeyn
> 
> that's not how I read the page, either . . . or how I read the
> board.  :)  I think what everymac is trying to say is that there are
> no bays for extra internal drives.  Which is probably true.
> 
> And on that note, does anyone have experience with any of the
> following Ethernet/NIC cards in the <$25 (prefferably <$15) range,
> which is about all I'm willing to spend on a card for this
> experiment?
> 
> *  D-Link DFE-530TX+
> *  SMC SMC1244TX
> *  Mac Sense E-450
> *  Fallaron Netline PN993MW-TX
> *  Netgear FA311TX
> *  Linksys EtherFast LNE100TX
> 
> I'm also open to other cheap, readily available suggestions.
> 
> Thanks so much,
> 
> --jay
> 
> 
> 
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