[Lancaster] any old PCI ethernet cards

[max*]

On Thursday 12 March 2009 14:59:53 Richard Robinson wrote:
> 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.

hey richard

this sounds good to me (if confusing, about three quarters of the cards are 
rtl 8139!). when's a good time to come and pick it up? i'm away practically 
all next week, but the week after is less stressy for me.

max