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by **Neil Zanell** » Thu, 28 May 1998 04:00:00

Hi,

I currently have a P5 at 166MHz and a TMC motherboard, the TI5TT.
I have installed Linux on my PC. I am now looking into networking
my Linux box with another box via ethernet cards. The second box
would have no hard drive and would do an NFS install.

Could someone suggest a good motherboard which is perhaps at the same
time not too expensive?

I would like to be able to run X and see everything in X go as smoothly as
on my other PC. I am also looking for something with a quiet CPU fan.
Suggestions on what network cards to use would also be appreciated.

Thanks,

Neil Zanella

by **Randy Coope** » Fri, 29 May 1998 04:00:00

If you are doing this for use at home then NE2000 compatable cards will
probably be sufficient. The ones I use support both thin-net and twisted
pair cabling. The cards autodetect the type of connection in use. They
are very inexpensive and available under numerous brand names (mine are
GVC-205BT cards). If you don't want to buy a hub, using coax cable is the
simplest, but you can get special cross-over cables to connect two network
cards together.

> Hi,

> I currently have a P5 at 166MHz and a TMC motherboard, the TI5TT.
> I have installed Linux on my PC. I am now looking into networking
> my Linux box with another box via ethernet cards. The second box
> would have no hard drive and would do an NFS install.

> Could someone suggest a good motherboard which is perhaps at the same
> time not too expensive?

> I would like to be able to run X and see everything in X go as smoothly as
> on my other PC. I am also looking for something with a quiet CPU fan.
> Suggestions on what network cards to use would also be appreciated.

> Thanks,

> Neil Zanella

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