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From: "Louis A. Mamakos" <louie@TransSys.COM>
Subject: Re: Good PCI card? (evidently 3c590 support no workee?) 
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I'm using a Linksys PCI ethernet card, which has a DECchip 21040
ethernet controller on board.  Cost me about $120.  It does 10Base-T
and thinnet.  Works out of the box with the 'de' ethernet driver.  I'm
using a recent SNAP, but I don't think there's any reason why earlier
versions wouldn't work.

louie

> I need a good PCI 10baseT card to use in a router.  I had to 3c590's, but 
> one is an A1 rev card (which the kernel moans about, why, what's wrong 
> with 'em?), and on the rev C card, it gripes about "EPROM didn't come ready".
> 
> But the probes find vx0 and vx1.  Neither are configurable however...
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> I've been pretty much a 3com shop, but can bail to anything else.
> 
> The card should probably be supported by -stable, but I could run 
> -current if need be.