[Preston] RE: memory

[John]

Hi Paul,

Thanks for the advice. I got very lucky as it turns out. I managed to buy
two brand new RealTek 8139's from Syren in Kirkham for only =A35.86 each!=
!!
Very cheap...They are boxed and badged as NexNIC ND010's but they are
RealTEK 8139 chipsets so I was chuffed to bits and bought two of them
(thanks also to Steve for recommending RealTEKs)..

Now I am having modem problems as per earlier email, I hope I don't have =
to
buy another modem (sigh). I am hoping I am being very stupid and missing
something obvious (again) like I did when trying to install IPCop and hav=
ing
burned tons of CDR's I twigged that the CDROM drive was dodgy... C'est la
vie (lol)

John
----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul A Brogden" <codeworx@bigfoot.com>
To: <preston@mailman.lug.org.uk>
Sent: Friday, November 08, 2002 11:33 PM
Subject: Re: [Preston] RE: memory


> On Thu, 2002-11-07 at 21:56, John wrote:
> > Well, I managed to boot IPCop up but only after swapping the cdrom dr=
ive
> > with one from another machine... The only problem I have got now is
where to
> > lay my hands on an IPCop-compatible NIC. I tried a computer shop toda=
y
but
> > they had no NIC's.... Anyone know of anywhere around the Preston /
Kirkham /
> > Blackpool / Lytham areas?
>
> Hi John,
> Sorry I've missed the rest of this thread, been a busy week - looks lik=
e
> you're getting there anyway.
> I've bought all my NICs from computer fairs, you're almost guaranteed t=
o
> find a Realtek based card at one of those.
> The other option would be either Scan or Dabs, although they will likel=
y
> be slightly more expensive than a fair.
>
> Regards,
> Paul
>
>
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