[Lancaster] any old PCI ethernet cards

Richard Robinson llug_6a at beulah.qualmograph.org.uk
Thu Mar 12 15:00:01 UTC 2009


On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 01:38:32PM +0000, max* wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> possibly a bit of a long shot, but I'm wondering if anyone has any PCI 
> ethernet cards (100mb+) knocking around? The network at 
> www.seedsforchange.org.uk (a non profit org supporting local groups) is still 
> working on 10Mb (some with BNC connections!) and while it's been fine so far, 
> some heavy progs like firefox need more to drag more data down the line than 
> the poor old cards can deal with (we're using thin clients with old 
> machines). 

I have an old Realtek 81390 you're welcome to if you like. It should be
10/100, I think, I was doing ADSL with it till I got a new box last year
with one built in.


-- 
Richard Robinson
"The whole plan hinged upon the natural curiosity of potatoes" - S. Lem




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