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You can get a two-port switch from Netgear or Linksys for under $100US, that
will work fine.  You'll need a 100baseTX hub on the fast side and a 10baseT
hub on the slow side, as well.

10/100 ISA cards do exist, but quite frankly unless you find them used or at
auction, it will probably be cheaper to put in a PCI motherboard.

Don't really know what's fastest and most stable for Linux--Intel works well
for Novell and NT.

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Quote:>I am looking to buy one of these for my 100-BaseT home LAN (which also has
>some 10-BaseT boxen too), and the net connection will be a 10-BaseT Cable
>Modem interface.

>I am only looking at spending < $150.  What should I buy?

>p.s. - What's the overall most stable and fastest 100-BaseT ethernet
>adapter for the Linux 2.2 kernel?  Also, is there such a thing as a ISA
>10/100 Ethernet card?

I am looking to buy one of these for my 100-BaseT home LAN (which also has
some 10-BaseT boxen too), and the net connection will be a 10-BaseT Cable
Modem interface.

I am only looking at spending < $150.  What should I buy?

p.s. - What's the overall most stable and fastest 100-BaseT ethernet
adapter for the Linux 2.2 kernel?  Also, is there such a thing as a ISA
10/100 Ethernet card?

Hate to break it to you, but most 100/10 switches cost upwards of
$1000, depending on the features.

Now, a hub on the other hand, could be had for that price.  

I have a D-Link 500tx nic in my machine - 100/10 autoswitch PCI - It's
based on the DEC tulip chip, so it's well supported in the kernel.  It
was detected during the RedHat 5.2 install, and worked flawlessly out
of the box.  It's a 'cost effective' (read that as CHEAP) card, too.

        As always, YMMV...

 Heath

Wouldn't a auto sensing hub work just as well? Linksys makes one that is not
that expensive($100 - $130).

Paul

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I have some LinkSys EtherFast PCI 10/100 that were $30 each at
Office Max and a LinkSys 10/100 AutoSense hub that is about
$160 mailorder. Speeds are better than 10mb, but not
spectacular -- about 4megabytes/second using FTP.

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Ouch.... I bought my AutoSensing hub last week at Best Buy for $99.95 of
course CompUSA had them for $129.95 two floors down. As for NIC's I like
anything with the DEC Alpha chip, I wonder what Compaq has planned for it?

Paul

Get rid of the blahs to email me :}

I think I am going to buy this:
http://necxdirect.necx.com/cgi-bin/auth/ifilelnk_q?key=0000129886

Also, does Linux 2.2 kernel support the 3Com FAST ETHERLINK ISA
10BT/100BASE-TX adapter?  I am looking into buying a 10/100 NIC for my box
and making use of what I have, rather than spending more money on a new
motherboard, RAM, cpu, etc.
http://necxdirect.necx.com/cgi-bin/auth/ifilelnk_q?key=0000093054 is what I
am looking into buying, if Linux supports it... although it is a bit
_pricey_ :(
Seems as if it's about twice as much as it's popular PCI counterpart... :/

Yup, an autosensing hub should be fine.

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alpha chip -- you mean the tulip chip?

The LinkSys card has a tulip clone that's close enough for the
current drivers to work.

The hub I got was 8 ports + uplink port.

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DLink has an 8-port 10/100 switch for $220. DSH-8.

If you can find one, a 486 PCI MB costs less than a 10/100 NIC.

You can occasionally find switches at www.onsale.com.  I bought a US Robitics
8 port 100mb TotalSwitch for ~$300 and a friend bought several as well as some
of the 32 port 10mb version.  Note that these are out of production as 3Com
bought USR, but they come with a 5 year guarantee from 3Com so....  Also note
that the port cards are interchangeable.

As for NICs, I use Netgear and Kingston.  I do have one 3Com 905 (not b), but
it has caused me problems on my dual PPRO so it's shelved at the moment.

Best

Cokey

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As stated, the switches are really expensive... not really sure a full switch
is better than a hub for small networks, as switches only prevent collisions
on busy nets.
Anyway, I found an IBM ISA 10/100TX adapter on www.ebay.com for $24. Works
great in anything but Linux, however, so stay away from it if that's what
you're planning on using it for.

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Heck, a whole 486 PCI _machine_ costs less than an ISA Fast Ethernet board.

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