[tulip] recommend Good, Cheap tulip adapter cards (November 2 000)

[Dan Hollis]

On Wed, 22 Nov 2000, Stephen Gutknecht (vw) wrote:
> Card choices so far.  Best price I found shown.
>   Cnet CN100TX (DEC or Intel 21143?); Onvia.com $30.70
>   Kingston KNE100TX (DEC Intel 21143?) ; buy.com $37.02
>   Linksys LNE100TX (ADMtek Comet or Centaur chipset?); buy.com $16.95
>   Compex Freedomline 100TX-WOL (21143?) - discontinued but out there?
>      -- SaleOnSall.com $44.86; bluemoon.net $39.99
>   Netgear FA310TX (21140AE?); staples.com $27.79

In my search for tulips and dual/quad cards I made up a web page:
http://www.anime.net/~goemon/cardz/

> Any reason to not just go with the LinkSYS LNE100TX for $16.95?  Or is there
> another chipset out there that is _as good or better_ than the Tulip and
> under $30?

Its fine as long as you dont get bit by the tx lockup bug. Maybe you can
find some intel i8255x cards for cheap, I havent found any yet.

-Dan