<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">Most cheap brands produce several versions of the same card, sometimes with completely different chipsets. So recommending by brand/model may not actually help you.<br><br>Better to go by chipset instead.<br><br>The intel Pro chipsets are well supported. Any modern Realtek chipset based card should work out of the box. Not the best chipset or driver around, and can be a bit heavier on cpu loading than other, more elegant (& expensive) solutions, but generally reliable. More recommended for a client rather than serious server system.<br>The Digital Tulip chipset is better, now owned by Intel, & works well, the Via Rhine is another low end one that also works well with Linux.<br><br>See:<br><a href="http://www.fefe.de/linuxeth/">http://www.fefe.de/linuxeth/</a><br> <a
href="http://www.linuxquestions.org/hcl/index.php/cat/10">http://www.linuxquestions.org/hcl/index.php/cat/10</a><br><br><br>Some cheaper cards that work OK:<br><br>TP Link TG 3269<br>Dlink DFE-530TX (Realtek) <br> DFE-530TX+ (Via Rhine) <br><br>Cheers,<br><br>Brent Wood<br><br>--- On <b>Sun, 7/3/11, David Antliff <i><david.antliff@gmail.com></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br>From: David Antliff <david.antliff@gmail.com><br>Subject: [wellylug] Gigabit Ethernet NIC recommendation<br>To: "Wellington Linux Users Group" <wellylug@lists.wellylug.org.nz><br>Date: Sunday, July 3, 2011, 12:47 PM<br><br><div class="plainMail">Hello,<br><br>Can anyone recommend an affordable (i.e. cheap), discrete, PCI,<br>10/100/1000 Mbit ethernet interface card that works *flawlessly* with<br>Linux (Ubuntu 32bit &
64bit) please?<br><br>Ideally I'm after one that has a driver built into the kernel, rather<br>than separate drivers.<br><br>There seem to be a number of low-cost brands. TP-Link cards are pretty<br>cheap but I don't know how well they work with Linux. Does anyone have<br>any experience with cheap cards?<br><br>I need a card that isn't going to chew up an unnecessary number of CPU<br>cycles, as the intended host is not particularly powerful (~ 1 GHz).<br>Since gigabit ethernet is not new, I would hope that most cards simply<br>work OOTB.<br><br>Thank you,<br><br>-- David.<br><br><br>--<br>Wellington Linux Users Group Mailing List: <a ymailto="mailto:wellylug@lists.wellylug.org.nz" href="/mc/compose?to=wellylug@lists.wellylug.org.nz">wellylug@lists.wellylug.org.nz</a><br>To Leave: <a href="http://lists.wellylug.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/wellylug"
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