Subj : Help_Please??????????
To   : Alan Cook
From : David Calafrancesco
Date : Tue Nov 06 2001 03:50 pm

Alan Cook wrote in a message to All:

 AC> * Original Area: OS2
 AC> * Original From: Alllan Cook (1:365/3253)
 AC> * Original To  : All (1:365/3253)

 AC>   Could anyone recommend a good/decent pci-based nic( ethernet?)
 AC> card   for os/2 use & vendor name/url ?????????

My favorite above all else is the 3com 3c905B. Preferably the without wake on 
lan stuff, which are only found in the surplus market it seems. I usually goto 
http://shopping.yahoo.com and do a search for 3c905b and then sort by ascending 
price, I then look at the web sites of the lowest few vendors and if it is one 
I recognize, I go and order. If not, then I either choose to pay more from 
someone place I recognize or I try a new vendor. 

In this case, there is a vendor selling them used for $15 each. That is an 
excellent deal. I'd take a used 3com over new of any other vendor. 

If 3com won't work for you, I have had decent luck with the Kingston 10/100 pci 
card. One is in my OS2 box right now simply because I got a bunch for free with 
my 8 port switch a few years ago and before I could afford the 3com's. As for a 
vendor, I use my regional distributor, but that won't help you :) Do the same 
with yahoo for a vendor, lowest price was under $10. For the money, go with 
3com. 

You should get the latest drivers from IBM or 3com for the 3com card, the 
kingston came with OS2 drivers though installing was a little weird but once 
installed they worked fine. 

Dave Calafrancesco, Team OS/2
dave@drakkar.org

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