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Subject: Re: Who's got the cheapest 100-BT Ethernet NIC?
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At 01:36 PM 4/9/2001 -0700, you wrote:
>I have several D-Link DFE-530TX+ 10/100 PCI NIC's
>living on my network.  They have never let me down the
>2 years I've used them.  Can be had for $19.99 at
>CompUSA, Best Buy, Circuit City, etc.  I've seen them
>for as low as $14.99 on sale.
>
>It uses the Realtek 8139 chip and in LINT the device
>driver is 'rl'.

From the drivers Source

/* 
* The RealTek 8139 PCI NIC redefines the meaning of 'low end.' This is 
* probably the worst PCI ethernet controller ever made, with the possible 
* exception of the FEAST chip made by SMC. The 8139 supports bus-master 
* DMA, but it has a terrible interface that nullifies any performance 
* gains that bus-master DMA usually offers. 
*


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